2024-2025 – Approximately 40% of students across the nation cannot read at a basic level.

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

Approximately 40% of students across the nation cannot read at a basic level

Almost 70% of low-income fourth grade students cannot read at a basic level.

3 out of 5 people in American prisons can’t read

3 out of 4 people on welfare can’t read

54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).

The US ranks 36th in literacy.