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AMERICAN ADULT LITERACY
TAGS: #adult functually illiterate, #reading, #literacy instruction, #Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) #CCC
Over 50% of U.S. adults read below a 6th-grade level,
with roughly 130 million people having low literacy skills.
The average American adult reads at a 7th- to 8th-grade
level, while 21% are functionally illiterate, struggling with
basic, multi-step, or complex tasks. Literacy has declined
since 2019.
National Literacy In… +5
• Low Literacy Statistics: Approximately 45 million
adults in the U.S. read below a 5th-grade level.
• Adult Literacy Levels: In 2023, 28% of adults scored
at or below Level 1, 29% at Level 2, and 44% at Level 3
or above, according to Wikipedia.
• Declining Trends: The number of adults with the
lowest literacy levels increased by 9 percentage points
between 2017 and 2023.
• Academic Impact: Only 32% of fourth-grade students
performed at or above the NAEP Proficient level in
reading in 2022, as shown on The Nation’s Report Card
(•gov).
• Economic Impact: The low literacy “silent crisis” costs
the U.S. economy an estimated $2 trillion annually.
(1933-1942) |FINANCIAL LITERACY| The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps were in operation.
In fact the CCC did a better job with literacy than the Department of Education which should have shut them down in 1945. People realized their gov’t jobs were in jeopardy so the department of education mounted a campaign to kill off the CCC and they did. Sadly for America they won the battle – we still have the incompetent department of noneducation.