Tag: Functional illiteracy

• Jobs: Digging for FACTS – Part 3/3

  No matter the reason, dropping out of high school is a decision made by the individual. No president, G. W. Bush or Obama, forces anyone to drop out of high school or to avoid college. If a child grows up and cannot read, it is not the president’s fault.

  Lloyd Lofthouse

  September 10, 2012

  American Dream, economics, finances, jobs, literacy, Lloyd Lofthouse, politics

  Adult Literacy, Barack Obama, Education, Functional illiteracy, functional illiteracy and unemployment, job growth in the United States, jobs and the importance of reading, Literacy, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the importance of literacy, Unemployment, United States

• Jobs: Digging for FACTS – Part 2/3

  A little known cause of illiteracy is cultural influences, children learn a lot from their environment at a young age and are known to mimic the behavior of the people around them …

  Lloyd Lofthouse

  September 9, 2012

  American Dream, economics, jobs, literacy, politics

  Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dropping out, Functional illiteracy, functional illiteracy and unemployment, functional illiteracy and unemployment are linked, High school, Literacy, literacy an unemployment are linked, National Center for Education Statistics, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, United States