Racial Gap Still Exists Online, Government Study Says

Today, more people have access to broadband Internet than ever before. According to a new study (PDF link) from the Department of Commerce, however, Internet access is far from a guarantee in the U.S. -- especially for racial minorities.

The report, which was published on Monday, finds that 68-percent of white households have high-speed Internet, compared with just 49-percent of African-American homes, and 48-percent of Hispanic families. Furthermore, when variables like income and education are removed from the equation, white people are still 10-percent more likely to have Internet access than African-Americans. "A lot of people assume these disparities are due just to income and education, but there seems to be more going on than that," Darrell West, founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution, told CNN. "It's not clear exactly what explains those differences, but the numbers suggests it's not just income that creates the digital divide."

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