The 60 million Americans who don’t use the Internet, in six charts

By artappraiser on Tue, 08/20/2013 - 4:59am |

By Caitlin Dewey, The Switch @ washingtonpost.com, August 19, 2013

Nearly 20 percent of U.S. adults don’t use the Internet. That means that roughly 60 million people, many of them elderly, poor and minorities, have no access to technology the rest of us increasingly consider mission-critical to modern life.

The New York Times’ has an interesting story today on that phenomenon, which lays out some of the programs policymakers have tried to use to get people online. But that got us wondering about who these 60 million people are and whether they’re offline by choice or circumstance — a question that is not, in fact, as obvious as you might think [....]

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