Role Of Illiteracy In America
Effects on Illiteracy in America
Literacy and education plays an important role in America. More than 4 percent of the adult population does not know how to read or write. (Literacy Partners.) Education is the basis of all jobs, governmental structure, and even society itself. Recent events and documents state the emphasis on the importance of a basic education. The rate of illiteracy is growing at an alarming rate, and nothing is being done about it. Illiteracy is a big problem today because it is directly associated with poverty, crime, and costs the government more money than budgeted.
Illiteracy affects everybody in America but especially the poor, in which already struggle to get by with everyday life. The rate of people that live in …show more content…
Money is one of the main contributors when it comes to illiteracy. Low literacy costs about seventy-three million dollars per year, in terms of health care. America has to provide for the welfare for all the illiterate people in the Unites States who do not even know how to read. Some people drop out of high school and rely on welfare to get them through life without getting a job, because only one out of four high school dropouts get job. Illiterates cannot do simple things that a high school graduate could do, so therefore they have to rely on someone else to do the simple tasks for them. For example, if people cannot read street signs, applications for jobs, or even menus to eat they have to rely on someone else to do this for them which cost money. Illiterate people are vulnerable to society, so America spends money to try and make them seem less vulnerable and try to make them fit in. Forty-four thousand people are added to the adult illiterate population each week in the United States, which is more money due to the fact that if more and more people are becoming illiterate they are relying on the government to give them money through welfare and even food stamps. All in all money is a disastrous problem when it comes to illiteracy and the United States is trying to be more manageable with the financial …show more content…
More and more people each day are becoming illiterate which is hurting America in every aspect. When people can’t read or write it effects the society as a whole just not themselves, because they have to rely on everyone else to do things for them. Society as whole is being effected by illiteracy, by others not knowing how to read and write, every negative effect hurts America and it will continue until something
Literacy and education plays an important role in America. More than 4 percent of the adult population does not know how to read or write. (Literacy Partners.) Education is the basis of all jobs, governmental structure, and even society itself. Recent events and documents state the emphasis on the importance of a basic education. The rate of illiteracy is growing at an alarming rate, and nothing is being done about it. Illiteracy is a big problem today because it is directly associated with poverty, crime, and costs the government more money than budgeted.
Illiteracy affects everybody in America but especially the poor, in which already struggle to get by with everyday life. The rate of people that live in …show more content…
Money is one of the main contributors when it comes to illiteracy. Low literacy costs about seventy-three million dollars per year, in terms of health care. America has to provide for the welfare for all the illiterate people in the Unites States who do not even know how to read. Some people drop out of high school and rely on welfare to get them through life without getting a job, because only one out of four high school dropouts get job. Illiterates cannot do simple things that a high school graduate could do, so therefore they have to rely on someone else to do the simple tasks for them. For example, if people cannot read street signs, applications for jobs, or even menus to eat they have to rely on someone else to do this for them which cost money. Illiterate people are vulnerable to society, so America spends money to try and make them seem less vulnerable and try to make them fit in. Forty-four thousand people are added to the adult illiterate population each week in the United States, which is more money due to the fact that if more and more people are becoming illiterate they are relying on the government to give them money through welfare and even food stamps. All in all money is a disastrous problem when it comes to illiteracy and the United States is trying to be more manageable with the financial …show more content…
More and more people each day are becoming illiterate which is hurting America in every aspect. When people can’t read or write it effects the society as a whole just not themselves, because they have to rely on everyone else to do things for them. Society as whole is being effected by illiteracy, by others not knowing how to read and write, every negative effect hurts America and it will continue until something