Draft Lifeline Item’s proposals make the erroneous and dangerous assumption that the Lifeline benefit must be even further constrained in order for individuals to “value” the benefit...These proposals fail to recognize that for most poor people, paying a bill for an essential communications service may well mean forgoing food, healthcare, clothing, school supplies, and other basic necessities." Groups that signed onto the letter include: 18MillionRising.org Access Humboldt American Library Association Appalshop, Inc. Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC Benton Foundation Center for Media Justice Center for Rural Strategies Color Of Change Common Cause Common Sense Kids Action Communications Workers of America CREDO Ellis Jacobs, Attorney for The Greater Edgemont Community Coalition of Dayton Ohio EveryoneOn Free Press Janice Meyers Educational Consulting, LLC NAACP National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians - CWA National Congress of American Indians National Consumer Law Center, on behalf of its low-income clients National Hispanic Media Coalition New America's Open Technology Institute OCA - Asian Pacific American Advocates Public Knowledge The Greenlining Institute United Church of Christ, OC Inc. X-Lab [gview file="https://www.nhmc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Lifeline-Letter-November-8-2017.pdf"]]]>
