But about 1 in 7 can't read it. They're illiterate. ... Lack of funding at the federal, state and local levels prevents about 90 percent of the illiterate from getting help, the organization claims. ... Americans Flunk Simple 3-Question Political Survey...
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The percentage is relatively stable for people 55 and older, with an increasing percentage for people over 65. At the start of the study in 1992, almost 51 percent of the people in the study said they were reading that amount of time. ... 44 million Americans are functionally illiterate.
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20 percent of Americans are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level. ... Grim Illiteracy Statistics Indicate Americans Have a Reading Problem Every year, at least two million adults considered to be functionally illiterate swell the ranks of Americans unable to read. If this critical problem isn't...
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A third release, distributed by the White House on September 7, 1983, states that '26 million Americans are functionally illiterate ... An additional 46 million Americans may be considered ... The U.S. Bureau of the Census meanwhile sends out printed forms to ask illiterate Americans to indicate their reading levels.
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Your browser does not support frames. Try Internet Explorer 3.0 or later or Netscape Navigator 2.0 or later. ... Functional Illiteracy ; ... Illiterate Adults Exceed Voters in Some Elections ;
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The literacy rate in the US is given as 97% in the World Almanac and Book of Facts 2007. It's not the highest. Japan is listed at 99%, as is the United Kindom.
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On a positive note, since 2002 the percentage of young Americans who use the Internet for news has more than doubled from 11 percent to 27 percent. Respondents who use the Internet were found to do better on the survey than those who do not.
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Despite nearly constant news coverage since the war there began in 2003, 63 percent of Americans aged 18 to 24 failed to correctly locate the country on a map of the Middle East. Seventy percent could not find Iran or Israel.
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In response to a demand for estimates of the percentage of adults with low literacy in individual states and counties, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has produced estimates of the percentage of adults lacking Basic Prose Literacy Skills (BPLS) for all states and counties in the United States in...
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Every year, at least two million adults considered to be functionally illiterate swell the ranks of Americans unable to read. If this critical ... National Assessment of Educational Progress testing indicates that the percentage of American children who are able to read well hasn't improved at all in the last 25 years.
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