Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
Broadband Internet becoming a part of daily life
5/29/2006 | 
Coverage
Ellen Lee, San Francisco Chronicle
'“More people than ever -- including minorities and lower- and middle-income households -- are hooking up to high-speed Internet access, the majority of them using DSL, a study released Sunday said.
About 84 million U.S. residents now have broadband Internet access at home, up 40 percent from 60 million last year, a study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found.
That has helped push a more diverse group of users onto the Internet, suggesting that the gap in the digital divide may be narrowing.
Broadband adoption among black families jumped 121 percent from 2005 to 2006, according to the study, so that 31 percent of black households have high-speed Internet access. About 40 percent of both white and Latino households have broadband Internet. Asian Americans and American Indians were not accounted for in the study.
Families making more than $75,000 a year were the most likely to subscribe, at nearly 70 percent. But an increasing number of middle- and lower-income households have also started to get broadband Internet.
"It gives those groups (the ability) to put their content online and have their voices heard," said John Horrigan, author of the study. "It's opening the World Wide Web to a greater stratum of the U.S. population."
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