"Illiteracy on the rise in America"
By Larry Roberts
14 October, 1998
"According to a recent US government report, The State of Literacy in America, released by the National Institute for Literacy (NIL), there has been a significant growth in illiteracy in America. Over 90 million US adults, nearly one out of two, are functionally illiterate or near illiterate, without the minimum skills required in a modern society.
The report is a devastating portrait of the social conditions in capitalist America, the country generally portrayed as the most advanced in the world. Out of 191 million adults in the US, as many as 44 million cannot read a newspaper or fill out a job application. Another 50 million more cannot read or comprehend above the eighth grade level."
Link: http://www.wsws.org/news/1998/oct1998/ill-o14.shtml
Notice the article is from 1998. This is such a bad joke. Is it not disgraceful? No wonder Bush doesn't *do* diplomacy.
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