How Google And HUD Plan To Bring Broadband To More Americans

The federal government wants to bridge the digital divide—with help from private-sector partners such as Google Fiber.

At Google's Googleplex headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt held a "fireside chat" on Thursday morning with Julián Castro, the secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Much of it addressed the sort of topics you might assume would occupy most of the HUD secretary's attention, such as homelessness and high rents. But—this being Google—the Internet was also a major subject.

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