LACK OF INTERNET ACCESS GROWS IN PANDEMIC AND EXACERBATES INEQUALITY

The pandemic has aggravated inequality in Internet access in Brazil, which can leave social scars in children and young people: with the digital divide and the disparity in access to education, the risk that children will not be able to have an income higher than that of their parents when adults increases. The alert notice comes from the Institute for Mobility and Social Development (IMDS), recently created by economists Arminio Fraga, former president of the Central Bank, and Paulo Tafner.

According to Tafner, the institute's CEO, it is already certain that the country's social mobility indicator between generations will worsen, which had been on the rise since the 1960s with the universalization of basic education.