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Leveraging Technology for Economic Development, Health, Energy and Educational Opportunities

The Financial Bailout and the Challenge for the States: De-Leveraging Working Families

Nathan Newman on September 29, 2008 - 6:09pm

According to The Wall Street Journal, "Fed and Treasury officials have identified the disease. It's called de-leveraging, or the unwinding of debt. During the credit boom, financial institutions and American households took on too much debt."  But let's not buy into a false equivalence of "financial institutions" and those "American households" borrowing beyond their means.

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PSN on July 1, 2008 - 12:54pm
States should promote distance learning programs toincrease educational opportunities for residents. With ubiquitous high-speed Internetaccess, students from any geographic location and income level can takeadvantage of otherwise unattainable educational and job trainingopportunities.

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PSN on July 1, 2008 - 12:50pm
High-speed Internet can be a crucial tool in cuttingAmericans’ energy costs through the promotion of telecommuting and moreefficientenergy use. For example, interactive monitoring of homes and officescan help to reducegreenhouse gas emissions and our carbon footprint while offering largeeconomicpayoffs. The implementation of smart grids would help manage theintermittency of renewable, environmentally friendly, energy sources.

Optimizing themanagement of energy supply and demand means a reduction in the likelihood ofcrippling regional blackouts or the need for keeping costly reserve powerplants online. Itis predicted thatwide adoption and use high-speed Internet applications can achieve what manyestimate is a net reduction of one billion tons of greenhouse gas over tenyears, which, if converted into energy saved, would constitute 11% of annualU.S. oil imports.

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PSN on July 1, 2008 - 12:39pm

States can help make health care moreaccessible and affordable by utilizing modern day technology. By merging technology and health care,state policymakers can create new opportunities for medical professionals andpatients to interact in more efficient ways. The use of technology in healthcare -- often called telehealth -- utilizes high-speed Internet applications toremotely monitor patients, facilitate collaboration between medicalprofessionals, exchange medical data and images, and instantaneously provideefficient emergency service to remote areas. The potential benefits of telehealthinclude saving lives, increasingaccess to and quality of medical services, providing better treatment for chronicillness, reducing medical costs and reducing patient travel.

 

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PSN on July 1, 2008 - 12:39pm

States can help make health care moreaccessible and affordable by utilizing modern day technology. By merging technology and health care,state policymakers can create new opportunities for medical professionals andpatients to interact in more efficient ways. The use of technology in healthcare -- often called telehealth -- utilizes high-speed Internet applications toremotely monitor patients, facilitate collaboration between medicalprofessionals, exchange medical data and images, and instantaneously provideefficient emergency service to remote areas. The potential benefits of telehealthinclude saving lives, increasingaccess to and quality of medical services, providing better treatment for chronicillness, reducingmedical costs and reducing patient travel.

 

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PSN on July 1, 2008 - 12:29pm
Wide-spread adoptionof affordable high-speed Internet can be a key tool to rejuvenate laggingeconomies and sustain state commerce. It is estimated that widespread adoption of high-speed Internet will add$134billion to the U.S. economy annually and create 1.2 million new jobs per year. Further, high-speed Internet can be keyto drawing new businesses to an area, no matter how remote or small. As evidence of the impact of high-speedInternet on individual communities, a recentstudy foundthat for every 1% point increase in state high-speed Internet penetration,employment is projected to increase by 0.2% to 0.3%. Further, the availability of high-speed Internet incommunities added over a 0.5% increasein the growth of business establishments.

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PSN on July 1, 2008 - 11:52am

Finding funding for high-speedInternet in state budgets can be a daunting task, but the rewards of potentialgreater economic growth, more accessible health care, energy savings andincreased educational benefits make the investment more than worth it.

Core Policies to Leverage Technology: