Study Finds One-Third in D.C. Illiterate
This, via Matt Drudge, who one can rest assured isn't making race an issue by highlighting D.C.'s functional illiteracy rate.
Fact is, one-fifth of the country is functionally illiterate. Personally, I'd love to see a "literacy comprehension" rate; that is, the percentage of the American adult population that can read day-to-day necessities - things like instructions on automated tellers, bill payment machines and the like - but choose to play stupid and screw something up for themselves.
I bet we'd find more than half of this country in that group.
But a one-fifth functional illiteracy rate is embarrassing enough.
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