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November 17, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n Some 42 million Americans have no access to broadband. In Louisiana, 1.7 million people, more than a third of the state\u2019s population, have this critical need.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_url=”https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/more-than-1-in-3-louisiana-residents-dont-have-high-speed-internet-the-state-has-a-plan-to-change-that?fbclid=IwAR1FV09-kW8o5xg6c6XrEhqq7b2E8OxhxFf2KQPiSB7nqk3akA0nZIRZ-j0″ button_text=”Read PBS Article” button_alignment=”left” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”56d9baef-9a35-434b-8d0d-0051210763eb” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ theme_builder_area=”post_content” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_row make_equal=”on” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”20px|20px|20px|20px|true|true” border_width_all=”1px” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pqlYp1JC8Uc” _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.23.1″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n On August 28, 2023, REV along with Lafourche Parish President Archie Chaisson, the Office of Broadband Development and Connectivity, Congressman Troy Carter, Congressman Garrett Graves, White House officials, dignitaries, local leaders and community members celebrated the completion of the Lafourche Crossing GUMBO project (Granting Underserved Municipalities Broadband Opportunities).<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rural Louisianans have felt shut out without broadband. The state has a plan to change that November 17, 2023 Some 42 million Americans have no access to broadband. In Louisiana, 1.7 million people, more than a third of the state\u2019s population, have this critical need.On August 28, 2023, REV along with Lafourche Parish President Archie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsrev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsrev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsrev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsrev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsrev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/letsrev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letsrev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsrev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letsrev.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}