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The Digitally Disconnected.
Q: So why do we still need to pass out
fact sheets? Can't we just use email and save the money?
A: Because those who most often support and would benefit from tax
reform are the digitally disconnected. |
Quick Facts:
The internet excludes many low-income families:
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80 percent of families making more than
$100,000 have computers.
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By contrast, of those families making
less than $30,000 a year, only 25 percent have computers.
The internet excludes many who lack
a college education.
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Of people with an undergraduate degree
or higher, 53 percent use the Web.
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Only 19 percent of people with a high
school education or less are Web users.
The internet excludes many people of color.
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Among families with incomes below $40,000,
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African Americans were less than half
as likely as whites to own a home computer
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and about 60 percent as likely to have
Internet access.
Note: The above facts were excerpted
from Losing
Ground Bit by Bit, a Benton Foundation Publication.
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