The Illiteracy Epidemic
- There are 7 million illiterate Americans
- Another 27 million are unable to read well enough to complete a job application
- 30 million can’t read a simple sentence.
- There are 50 million who read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level.
- Nearly a third of the nation’s population is illiterate or barely literate.
- A third of high-school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives, and neither do 42% of college graduates.
- In 2007, 80 percent of the families in the United States did not buy or read a book.
