As the threshold for minimum competency levels continues to rise. significant numbers of the current work force will need some type of basic skills training and retraining. Seventyfive percent of the current work force will still be in the work force by the year 2000 and roughly 30 million current workers will need some type of retraining. Changing demographics suggest that our future work force will rely increasingly on population groups that have disproportionately high rates of illiteracy. Women. immigrants. and blacks. Hispanics. Asians. and other races will account for over 80 percent of the work force growth from 1986 to the year 2000.
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Immigrants are disproportionately likely to have high rates of illiteracy.