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The Decline of America: "Standing Tall:" Literacy


"According to UNESCO, the U.S. ranks 49th among 156 United Nations
member countries in its rate of literacy, and this current ranking
reflects a drop of 18 places since 1950"

"As reported in the 1986 publication entitled Making Literacy
Programs Work: A Practical Guide for Correctional Educators (for the
U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections),
one-half of all adults in federal and state correctional facilities
cannot read or write at all. Only about one-third of those in prison
have completed high school."


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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not
spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the
genius of its scientists, the houses of its children."
        --Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953

[Source: Physicians for Social Responsibility]
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Literacy Volunteers of America, Inc.
5795 Wildewaters Parkway, Syracuse, NY 13214
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