
Apr 14, 2021April 14, 2021
In our community and across our nation, illiteracy contributes to unemployment, poverty, crime, overuse of emergency healthcare services, and other social problems. The children of people without literacy skills suffer from increased rates of academic and behavioral problems in school.
(*Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies: State and County Estimates of Adult Skills, 2017 data released 4/2020.)