During an appearance at a library in one of Washington, DC's poorest neighborhoods yesterday, President Obama unveiled a new plan to provide ebooks to some of the country's low-income children. The plan commits $250 million to give kids access to 10,000 digital books from all the major publishing houses, all through an e-reader app the New York Public Library is currently developing.
The plan is aimed at improving educational development for children in inner cities, and comes after the president made forceful comments about the plight of those living in poverty during the Baltimore riots. "If we think that we're just going to send the police to do the dirty work of containing the problems that arise there without, as a nation and as a...
President Obama unveils plan to give 10,000 free ebooks to low-income kids
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