SEIU tackles the Digital Divide

Bill Bumpus's picture

I recently came across some 1996 figures about consumer goods in low-income vs. all (in parenthesis) households:

Refrigerator 99% (99)
Color TV 97% (99)
Car 70% (90)
PC 13% (35)

Has anybody come across any more recent figures? I'd be especially curious to know how the figures might change if there's a teenager or younger worker in the household.

I found
an interesting piece
on the SEIU site about a locals in NY and LA that have made subsidized computer/internet access into a contract provision.