#  \[Digital Brief\] Digital Divide Persists Even as Lower-income Americans Make Gains in Tech Adoption (Pew) 

 





March 23, 2017

 

 

The digital divides still exist. A Pew Recearch Center study,"[Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/22/digital-divide-persists-even-as-lower-income-americans-make-gains-in-tech-adoption/?utm_source=Pew%20Research%20Center&utm_campaign=a05c6c50ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-a05c6c50ef-400316033), shows how the digital lives of lower- and higher-income Americans remain markedly different. Read [more](http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/22/digital-divide-persists-even-as-lower-income-americans-make-gains-in-tech-adoption/?utm_source=Pew%20Research%20Center&utm_campaign=a05c6c50ef-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_3e953b9b70-a05c6c50ef-400316033)

> Roughly three-in-ten adults with household incomes below $30,000 a year don’t own a smartphone. Nearly half don’t have home broadband services or a traditional computer. And a majority of lower-income Americans are not tablet owners. By comparison, many of these devices are nearly ubiquitous among adults from households earning $100,000 or more a year.
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> And with fewer options for online access at their disposal, many lower-income Americans are relying more on smartphones. In 2016, one-fifth of adults living in households earning less than $30,000 a year were “smartphone-only” internet users – meaning they owned a smartphone but did not have broadband internet at home. This represents an increase from 12% in 2013. In contrast, only 4% of those living in households earning $100,000 or more fell into this category in either year.

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