A 2019 study by the California Emerging Technology Fund (CETF) showed that lack of access affected 16 percent of Los Angeles residents and 12 percent of San Franciscans, higher than the 9 percent mark of rural areas like the Inland Empire and the Central Valley.
To that end, stories also abound of parents taking their kids to a Starbucks or McDonald’s to do their homework.
“That should not be happening in California,” said former state senator and current CETF Vice-Chair Martha Escutia during a recent broadcast of the Nation State in Play podcast. “We should not be going to McDonald’s to have access to the Internet.”