2/18: Internet access hard to find in MS, AL

Census Bureau says: Hard to find Internet access in Mississippi, Alabama

Data released Wednesday shows that Mississippi and Alabama rank at the bottom nationally in the percentage of households with access to the Internet. Neither state has gotten much help from a $7.2 billion pool of stimulus money to fund broadband expansion.

Only 56.6 percent of homes in Mississippi have Internet access, last in a nation where 73.5 percent of homes have access. In Alabama, 61.7 percent of households have access to the Web.

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