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- Illiteracy affects a person's ability to participate in and contribute to the world around them fully. About 18% of the US adult population is functionally illiterate. Hispanics, older people, and incarcerated people are more likely to be low literate than other US adults.
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Jan 17, 2024 · There is currently a literacy crisis happening in the U.S., one that disproportionately affects students of color, and that cannot be ignored. Literacy is one of the major civil rights issues of our time, and our children’s future — and our nation’s democracy — depends on us addressing it now.
Mar 2, 2022 · Lexia Learning. Illiteracy is costing America — here’s why. The U.S. reading crisis is 20 years in the making; 130 million read below 6th grade level. Nick Gaehde, president, Lexia Learning....
Nov 7, 2017 · Illiteracy affects 18% of US adults (approximately 57.4 million people), most commonly impacting black people, Hispanic people, and low-income individuals. Illiteracy is perpetuated from one generation to the next and leads to higher chances of unemployment and poverty.
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May 31, 2022 · The burden is lifelong, with morbid outcomes—illiteracy has strong links to poverty, with some 43 percent of illiterate adults living under the poverty line, and a reduced ability to access health services.
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The risks to people who can’t read or can barely read are significant, including: It’s not just that low literacy leads to poverty and poverty to poor health care. Even after adjusting for sociodemographic characteristics, the relationship between reading level and health remains. Studies have linked low literacy to problems with use of preventive ...
At first glance, things have improved drastically over the past two centuries. Our World in Data, an online publication that tracks global problems, notes that only 12 percent of the global population could read in 1820, while today 12 percent can’tread. That impressive turnaround helped reduce inequalities within industrialized countries, includin...
Getting children to read at their grade level is, as mentioned above, a critical factor in setting them up for future literacy. Risk factors include whether the family has access to books and whether children are being read to before they can read themselves. The National Institute of Literacy reports that only about half of children are read to da...
Dec 14, 2022 · In about 500 American counties, nearly a third of adults struggle to read basic English, according to ProPublica’s analysis of federal literacy data. These adults may have a basic vocabulary...
This Policy Circle Brief will explore literacy in the United States, including the change in literacy rates over time, the impact of the pandemic on literacy among our youth, the variance of literacy results across different demographic groups, and the policy changes proposed to improve literacy.
