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61 percent of children growing up in low-income families have no books at home.
First Book
168,000 U.S. high school graduates will forgo college this year solely for financial reasons.
Harper's Magazine
1 in 3 women around the world cannot read or write.
Women in Literacy
American businesses lose over $60 billion in productivity each year due to employees' lack of basic reading skills.
First Book
70% of prisoners cannot perform basic reading and writing tasks.
International Literacy Network
Access to printed materials has a greater affect on a child's literacy rates than their family's income.
First Book
1 in 20 adults in the U.S. are not literate in English.
Metro
50 percent of the world's illiterate people live in India and China.
Rotary International
More than 50 percent of Africans are illiterate.
Rotary International
More than 130 million school-age children are not attending school.
International Literacy Network