PYMNTS.com March 24, 2023
Regular, reliable access to the internet has ramifications across all facets of daily life.
However, billions of people around the world remain on the other side of the digital divide, living their daily lives without access to reliable broadband, including many in America.
PYMNTS research in the 2023 report, “The ConnectedEconomy™ Monthly Report: Digitally Divided — Work, Health and the Income Gap,” finds that as digital solutions continue to transform critical areas like healthcare, an unfortunate gap is widening between high-income consumers and low-income consumers.
The most recent data shows that high-income consumers are 70% more likely than low-income consumers to participate in the digital economy and are now twice as likely as low-income consumers to use digital onramps like...