Literacy Data and its impact on the Nation

• Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 130 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children
• 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022
• 54% of adults have a literacy below 6th grade level
• 45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level
• 44% of the American adults do not read a book in a year
• The Top 3 states for highest child literacy rates were Massachusetts, Maryland, and New Hampshire, in that order (highest to lowest).
• The Bottom 3 states for child literacy rates were Louisiana, Mississippi, and New Mexico, (highest to lowest)….