As federal lawmakers held a hearing Thursday on broadband equity, a new report details how the internet service provider industry, through hiked prices and disappearing lower-priced offerings, is exacerbating the digital divide.

Entitled Price Too High and Rising: The Facts About America’s Broadband Affordability Gap, the publication (pdf) from Free Press states that “the central fact is Americans pay too much for the internet.”

“By the start of 2020, nearly 80 million people still did not have adequate internet at home,” according to report author and Free Press research director S. Derek Turner. “Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people comprise a disproportionate number of those who are disconnected.”

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