LITERACY FACTS

• An estimated 1.4 million adults in New Jersey are functionally illiterate.
  
• 23% of the adult population of the U.S. cannot read and write English.
  
• 85% of juveniles brought before our courts and half of all prison inmates are illiterate.
  
• 75% of the unemployed have inadequate reading and writing skills.
  
• Children of illiterate parents face a higher than average risk that they, too, will be illiterate.
  
  
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