Facts
18 million adults in the United States do not read well enough to earn a living wage.
In the U.S., 30 million people over age 16 — 14% of the country’s adult population — do not read well enough to understand a newspaper story written at the eighth grade level or to fill out a job application.
774 million adults around the world are illiterate in their native languages.
Over 70% of inmates in America's prisons cannot read above a fourth grade level.
Low literacy costs the United States $225 billion or more each year in non-productivity in the workforce, crime, and loss of tax revenue due to unemployment.
44 million adults in the United States are unable to even read a simple story to a child.
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