Four in five U.S. adults (79 percent) have English literacy skills sufficient to complete tasks that require comparing and contrasting information, paraphrasing, or making low-level …

21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level ( 20% are below 5th-grade level). Low levels of literacy costs the US up to 2.2 trillion per year.

The gap in illiteracy between white and black adults continued to narrow through the 20th century, and in 1979, the rates were approximately equal. [11] There has been a notable increase in …

2025年1月17日 · 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2025. 54% of adults have literacy below a 6th-grade level ( 20% are below a 5th-grade level). Low levels of literacy costs the US up to …

2022年3月16日 · About 130 million adults in the U.S. — half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 74 — have low literacy skills according to a Gallup analysis of data from the U.S. …

2024年1月17日 · There is currently a literacy crisis happening in the U.S., one that disproportionately affects students of color, and that cannot be ignored. Literacy is one of the …

2023年9月5日 · Twenty-one percent, or 43 million US adults, find it difficult to compare and contrast information, paraphrase, or make low-level inferences, and, according to the PIAAC …