Online Racial Divide Grow

[Brian High]

(sorry about those blank messages...--Brian)

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Online Racial Divide Grows
By TED BRIDIS Associated Press Writer 

WASHINGTON (AP) - The disparity on the Internet
between whites and black and Hispanic Americans is growing toward 
a ``racial ravine,'' in many cases even after accounting for 
differences in income, a new government report said Thursday.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/ap/technology/story.html?s=v/ap/19990708/tc/digital_divide_4.html

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Digital division persists in U.S.

Mercury News Staff Report 

The latest report on the ``digital divide'' from the
U.S. Department of Commerce says that while
millions of Americans continue to venture into the
wired world for the first time each year, significant
gaps remain between the nation's information
``haves'' and ``have-nots'' -- gaps that continue to
fall along racial, income and education lines.

http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/indepth/docs/1divide08.htm

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Commerce: 'Digital divide' grows
Maria Seminerio, ZDNet

Even as Americans continue to get online in droves, the digital 
divide between blacks and whites and between urban and rural Americans 
is on the increase, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce's 
third annual "Falling Through the Net" survey, released Thursday. 

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/technology/zdnet/story.html?s=v/zd/19990709/tc/19990709107

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U.S. Says Race, Wealth Determine Internet Use
By David Lawsky

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Commerce Department Thursday released a
detailed report on Internet use, which highlighted a growing digital 
divide between whites and minorities and the poor and rich.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/headlines/wr/story.html?s=v/nm/19990709/wr/web_access_2.html

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Report cites widening online gap between whites, blacks 
By TED BRIDIS 

WASHINGTON (July 8, 1999 9:00 a.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - 
The gap between whites and black and Hispanic Americans who own 
computers and use the Internet is growing into a "racial ravine," 
in many cases even after accounting for differences in income, the 
government reported Thursday. 

<...snip...>

Other key findings: 

-About 47 percent of all whites own computers, but fewer than half as 
many blacks do.

-About 25.5 percent of Hispanics own computers, but fully 55 percent of 
Asians do. Asian families also are most likely to have Internet access, 
with 36 percent online. 

-A child in a low-income white family is three times more likely to 
have Internet access as a child in a comparable black family and 
four times more likely than a Hispanic child. 

-People with college degrees are more than eight times more likely to 
own a computer and 16 times more likely to have Internet access than 
people with elementary school educations. 


http://www.techserver.com/noframes/story/0,2294,68346-108179-766387-0,00.html

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