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<p>However, employers and colleges have greater expectations that job and college applicants will have phones with them and internet access. Given today’s more competitive environment for both jobs and colleges, not having a mobile phone and internet can put one at a significant disadvantage in these areas.</p>
<p>Note that low cost prepaid mobile phones are probably the cheapest way to get any phone service, so if you consider phone service a necessity (to contact employers for jobs and the like), you should not be resentful of poor people having mobile phones. Public library internet access works for some people, but may be more difficult if the library hours are cut back due to budget cuts, or there is insufficient computer equipment for all of the people using it (probably more common in poor areas which have less tax base to fund public libraries).</p>