Reducing Digital Inequities: The Role of Helping Professionals in Designing Just and Inclusive Strategies.
This policy brief calls on social workers and other helping professionals to participate in efforts to address broadband internet access inequities. We first highlight continuing access inequities and their consequences for low-income persons, as well as older persons, minority group members, those...
| Publicado en: | Families in Society: Journal of Contemporary Social Services Vol. 107; no. 1; pp. 293 - 301 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Mar2026
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