If these grants are such a good idea, why don't states just do them? Why do they need federal funding?<p>Sure, these are great for local communities when you take money from California and pass it to states with no income taxes.<p>If remote work is really going to take off, why would rural America be the beneficiary, rather than, say, Mexico, which has a fair amount of English speakers in the same time zone, universities, etc, and lower costs than rural America?