What’s wrong with America

We are becoming a nation that can’t or doesn’t read. We are an illiterate or semi-literate society.

Over 42 million American adults can’t read – the number is growing by 2 million a year.

Another 50 million only read at a fourth- or fifth-grade level.

A third of high school graduates, along with 42 percent of college graduates, never read a book after they finish school.

Eighty percent of the families in the United States last year did not buy a book.

Read: Forget Red vs. Blue — It’s the Educated vs. People Easily Fooled by Propaganda

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