Illiteracy In America
Although the United States is the most powerful country in the world, with its high economy rate and “dot comers” at its highest peak ever, it is unfortunately, sad to say that the elevating illiteracy rate is also at its highest peak also. Even though the U.S. has the lowest rate among the other world countries, illiteracy still is a problem today that many U.S. citizens struggle with. A generalization of illiteracy is not being able to functionally read or write and “is essentially associated with poverty”(National Institute of Literacy p94) Whereas the definition of illiteracy stated by Webster (p413) is being unable to read and write; uneducated; having or showing a lack of knowledge of fundamentals on a particular subject. No one is capable of looking at another person and realizing that they are functionally illiterate, because illiterate people make it difficult to detect because they are so good at covering it. The literate public does not realize the size of the literacy problem today. They think everyone is literate, but more than 40 million Americans 16 years of age and older have only basic reading and writing skills, according to the U.S. department of education. WWW.galegroup.com Customarily, citizens apt to look
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