Reply #58: Since you slammed this statistic...

[chervilant]

Using data from the Adult Literacy in America report, Literacy Research Associates, Inc., a non-profit educational corporation, calculated the average yearly earnings by literacy group and compared with the threshold poverty level for an individual reported by the U.S. Census Bureau. The average annual earnings of U.S. adults in the two lowest literacy groups, comprising 48.7% of the interviewees were below the poverty threshold. This means that 48.7% of U.S. adults read and write so poorly that they cannot hold an above-poverty-level-wage job. This is another way of saying they are functionally illiterate.

I went back in my archives to find the resource I used the first time I discussed adult illiteracy on DU. While I could not find the exact study I used, this one comes close. I said 'almost half' in my comment hereinabove, because I couldn't remember the exact percentage.

Please, consider using your energy and activism to help insure our citizenry has EVERY opportunity to be fully educated, and to help eliminate the radical income inequity which relegates the vast majority of us into servitude to the uber wealthy.