There are still five million adults – around one in ten – who are not online. Twice as many lack the skills and confidence to navigate the online world effectively.
There has been huge investment in physical capital. But meanwhile, the effort to revitalise our human capital has been fragmented, centralised and half-hearted.
This is a social justice issue: people with lower incomes aspire to get married, but face significantly higher financial and cultural barriers to doing so.
When things like like “family stability, imperfectly treatable health problems, and community engagement” are taken into account, the class divide becomes a chasm.