No wonder why no one reads the Coozer Files... From Live Science:
Statistics 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.
The figures are for 2003, the latest year available. State and county results are available here.
For shits and giggles, I checked some of the stats. I figured I could point and laugh at Iowa from my high perch of literacy in the cognac-sipping, well-read county of Queens, NY. It turns out we're 46% illiterate! (For the record, Iowa is only 7% illiterate.)
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Then there is the large portion of the US population that can read, but doesn't understand the meaning (or implications) of what they have just read...
You know- I wonder if some of it might be a large percentage of immigrants- people who may very well be literate in their own language, but cannot read English. Especially when you're emigrating from a country with a different alphabet...
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