Putting a dent in poverty...might broadband help?

A simple regression using 2013 U.S. county data on the poverty rate and the percent of the population with access to broadband speeds > 25 mbps, reveals that for every one percent increase in high speed broadband penetration, the poverty rate falls by .015 percent.

What might be more revealing though is a look at the descriptive statistics.  Nearly equal is the percent (20%) of counties that have less than 10% and more than 90% high speed broadband access.  When ranked by poverty rates, at the top and bottom of the 3,040 counties, there is a digital divide as measured by access to high speed broadband.