President Obama wants as many families as possible to receive high speed Internet access and he has unveiled a plan to help poor families receive the service.

Wednesday, the Obama administration announced a plan that would allow low-income families the opportunity to receive high speed Internet.

The initiative is known as ConnectHome, according to a White House fact sheet, and it aims to connect over 275,000 low-income families to high-speed broadband Internet. Initially, the program will be rolled out to 27 cities, including New York, Boston and Seattle. The program will also be offered at the Choctaw Tribal Nation in Oklahoma. The White House says that this plan will help connect nearly 200,000 children to the Internet.

The Obama administration has made it its goal to provide high-speed Internet service to everyone, no matter what their income level is. In March, Obama created the Broadband Opportunity Council, which is a combination of 25 different agencies in charge of providing more people with broadband access. Obama believes that this is a very important component for U.S. economic growth and competitiveness.

Figures from the Pew Research Center show that a large majority of high income households earning mor than $75,000 have broadband Internet access. Low income families, earning below $30,000, have a little over half of their households connected to broadband Internet.

The American Library Association was pleased by Obama's plan and said that over 5 million households with school-aged children do not have access to a high-speed Internet connection.

"While nearly two-thirds of households in the lowest-income quintile own a computer, less than half have a home internet subscription," the White House said in a statement on Wednesday. "While many middle-class U.S. students go home to Internet access, allowing them to do research, write papers, and communicate digitally with their teachers and other students, too many lower-income children go unplugged every afternoon when school ends. This 'homework gap' runs the risk of widening the achievement gap, denying hardworking students the benefit of a technology-enriched education."

Last month, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said that broadband Internet has changed from a luxury item, to a necessity.

With the ConnectHome program, the U.S. government will partner with different public and private organizations to provide either free or affordable high-speed Internet. Google Fiber will offer free high-speed Internet in public housing communities in select cities. CenturyLink will offer monthly Internet for $9.95 per month for the first year.

Obama said in a recent speech that 90 percent of families with parents who have graduated college have high-speed Internet, while less than half of those with just a high school education are connected, Gizmodo reported.