America's technology addiction is steadfast, photo by Joits via Creative Commons

Released this month, the data draws from the results of a 2011 survey based on 118,656 households that evaluates the percent of households over the age of 15 who own “consumer durables.”

The highest percentage of people—both above and below the poverty line—own refrigerators (99.2 percent), closely followed by televisions (98.3) percent. 

A surprising 80.9 percent of households below the poverty level have cell phones and even 58.2 percent have computers. 

The report also shows that over 95% of American households that are living in poverty have television access, refrigerators, and stoves. 

Barely a quarter of Americans (26.2%) living below the poverty line, however, own freezers. 

While the L.A. Times recently reported that the income gap between the rich and the poor is currently the largest it’s been in a century, it appears that the need for technology is universal, as even poverty is not enough to keep cellphones and televisions away from the American populace. 

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