This paper explores the dissemination of access to home Internet among Whites and Blacks in the US, the inequalities observed between the groups (known as the digital divide), the trends exhibited by the two groups in the acquisition of Internet access, and the factors contributing to these disparities. The study focuses on the large and growing digital divide observed among Whites and Blacks in the period 1997-2007. Both the standard and a variant of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition techniques are employed to identify and quantify the factors that contribute to this gap. In all decompositions, differences in education, family income, household composition, and access to the Internet outside the home are found to be the primary factors that explain the racial digital gap.

and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) organized a four-part seminar series to explore the science-based concepts of climate equity and environmental justice and examined how NOAA and the federal government may better serve vulnerable and underrepresented communities. PRSSO invited nine leading scholars and researchers from academia and across the federal government to discuss their work in this field.

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