14 percent of US Adults can't read


	14 percent of US Adults can't read

thekay

1-11-2009 1:16 AM

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1-11-2009 4:22 AM

noonoosngoggas

And one out of every five is mentally ill. Yup, these are the leaders of the free world.

1-11-2009 6:59 AM

abailart

If one goes beyond the category of functional literacy (a level of reading which enables basic access to basic written information) there is a case to be made for putting illiteracy figures much higher (not only in the US).

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About 14 percent of U.S. adults won't be reading this article. Well,
okay, most people won't read it, given all the words that are published
these days to help us understand and navigate the increasingly complex
world. 
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But about 1 in 7 can't read it. They're <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/livescience/sc_livescience/storytext/14percentofusadultscantread/30521166/SIG=124s2nvik/*http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060718_illiterate_boys.html" linkindex="49"><SPAN id="lw_1231608664_0" class="yshortcuts">illiterate</SPAN></A>.
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<SPAN id="lw_1231608664_1" class="yshortcuts">Statistics</SPAN> released by the U.S. Education Department this week show
that some 32 million U.S. adults lack basic prose literacy skill. That
means they can't read a newspaper or the instruction on a bottle of
pills. 
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unemployment figures are the highest in 16 years," Harvey said. "A
large number of the unemployed are low-skilled individuals who struggle
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ProLiteracy also estimates:
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