Fixing Silicon Valley’s diversity problem

What can Silicon Valley firms do in the short term to achieve their goals of having a more diverse workforce?

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Fixing Silicon Valley’s diversity problem

What can Silicon Valley firms do in the short term to achieve their goals of having a more diverse workforce?

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Fixing Silicon Valley’s diversity problem

What can Silicon Valley firms do in the short term to achieve their goals of having a more diverse workforce?

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Fixing Silicon Valley’s diversity problem

What can Silicon Valley firms do in the short term to achieve their goals of having a more diverse workforce?

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Connection Failed: Internet Still A Luxury For Many Americans

Among US households with incomes of $30,000 and less, only 54% have access to broadband at home, says Kathryn Zickuhr, a research associate with Pew Research Center’s Internet Project.

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Unfair Phone Charges for Inmates

The Federal Communications Commission ended a grave injustice when it prohibited price-gouging by the private companies that provide interstate telephone service for prison and jail inmates. Thanks to the FCC order, which takes effect next month, poor families no longer have to choose between paying for basic essentials and speaking to a relative behind bars.

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Black Americans find their voice on Twitter forums

Like most early Twitter users, many young black Americans initially took to microblogging to follow celebrities or send short, quick messages to friends on their phones, but the site has since grown to become an important forum to discuss broad issues around race in America.

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FCC chief: Reagan could be proud of ‘Obamaphone’ program

Acting Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn forcefully defended her agency's phone subsidy program for the poor in a speech.

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Here’s what you miss by only talking to white men about the digital revolution and journalism

Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on The Press, Politics and Public Policy and the Nieman Journalism Lab launched Riptide, a new project about the disruption of journalism by technology.

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