Sen. Cory Booker today introduced his plan to improve the quality of life in rural America during a four-day tour through Iowa
It also includes reestablishing a White House Rural Council and senior adviser focused on rural America.
To tackle the opioid epidemic, Booker pledged to spend $100 billion over a decade on competitive grants for state and local governments and another $800 million for tribal governments to boost treatment services and prevention programs. To expand rural broadband, Booker said he would make an “unprecedented” federal investment, but didn’t attach a price tag. He also would automatically enroll low-income families in a Federal Communications Commission program that helps them pay for monthly telephone and internet bills.
Booker doesn’t go as far as to call for breaking up large corporations in industries like agriculture and tech, which both Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have done. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said the Justice Department should use its existing power to investigate the seed and chemical sectors and break up corporations “when appropriate.”
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