BOSTON, Sept. 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius joined Comcast to announce the largest eligibility expansion of Internet Essentials in Massachusetts.  The program, which is the nation’s largest, most comprehensive, and most successful low-income broadband adoption initiative, will now have double the number of eligible low-income households and include people with disabilities and seniors. Since August 2011, Internet Essentials has connected more than eight million low-income individuals, from two million households, 90 percent of whom were not connected to the Internet at home at the time they signed up under the program.  This number includes more than 215,000 residents across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and almost 50,000 low-income people in Boston.

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