This paper uses U.S. data from the Survey of Adult Skills (otherwise known as PIAAC) to explore a digital inclusion pathway leading from digital access to digital literacy. The pathway consists of four observable stages in the data: Digital Access, Digital Taste, Digital Readiness, and Digital Literacy. In looking at this inclusion, particular attention is paid to two sets of issues, digital equity and digital embedding. Digital equity is defined in terms of differences in groups' distribution in these pathway stages after accounting for differences due to other variables such as age, education and employment status. Digital equity is examined with regard to gender, race/ethnicity, and national origin. The analyses show systematic digital inequities tied to each of these characteristics. The digital embedding of an economic or social outcome is defined as a specific pattern of association between that outcome and an index of ICT use at work or outside of work after statistically controlling for differences due to demographic characteristics, educational attainment and assessed proficiency. The digital embedding of six economic and social outcomes is examined: earnings, employment, social trust, volunteerism, political efficacy and general health. The paper finds digital embedding of earnings among workers but no digital embedding of current employment status among the general adult population. There is digital embedding of all four social outcomes examined among the general adult population. Implications of these findings for digital literacy policy and programs and future research are discussed.