Findings from Recent Brattle Report on the Economic Benefits and Costs of the Affordable Connectivity Program Featured Across Several Media Outlets

A recent Brattle-authored report prepared for TruConnect providing an economic analysis of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) has been featured by several media outlets, including Broadband Breakfast, the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society Daily Digest, and Fierce Network.

In the report, the Brattle coauthors show that reinstating the ACP could lead to significant savings and benefits for the US in healthcare, education, and the labor market. The total quantified benefits in these areas are significantly larger than the program’s modest annual cost of $7.3 billion; in fact, the overall healthcare savings alone are quadruple the ACP’s annual funding and could more than offset the costs of the entire program if it were reinstated.

View coverage of Brattle’s report in these outlets:

The full report, “Paying for Itself: How the Affordable Connectivity Program Delivers More Than It Costs,” was coauthored by Dr. Paroma Sanyal, Principal Dr. Coleman Bazelon, and Senior Associate Dr. Yong Paek.

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