Literacy Empowers the World

Just to give you a glimpse of how Literacy impacts our world (statistics provided by ProLiteracy):

 ·         14% of adults over age 16 – read at or below a fifth grade level

·         29% only read at the eight grade level and 43% among those with the lowest literacy rates, live in poverty

·         75% of state prison inmates did not complete high school or can be classified as low literate

·         Uneducated girls are four times more likely to have a child before their 19th birthday than those with a secondary education

·         An estimated $230 billion dollars are added to the country’s annual health care costs because of low literacy

·         1 in 5 American adults cannot use or access the internet and those without a high school education are least likely to have access www.literacynycap.org