The resolution was eventually enacted and Congress was able to bring attention to the plight of more than 27 million Americans who lack the basic skills necessary to function in todays ever changing. technological society. Today more than 27 million adults cannot complete a job application. read a newspaper. comprehend a bus or train schedule or understand a warning label on a bottle of medicine. The Department of Education estimates that more than 2.3 million more illiterates including high school dropouts. unlettered passalong graduates and some immigrants. are added to that list every year. However. the problem has not been confined to those groups of dropouts or disadvantaged minority group members. although they represent the highest number. Increasingly. we are discovering that working members of mainstream American society are either totally illiterate or unable to read at the level presumably required by their job or of their position in society.
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