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[quote=Anonymous]I just did a quick Google. At [url]http://www.washingtonliteracycenter.org/what-we-do/[/url] I found the DC has about 90,000 functionally illiterate adults. At [url]http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/11000.html[/url] I found that the 2013 population of DC was about 650,000 with about 17% under 18; that leaves about 550,000 adults. So the 90,000 illiterate ones are less than a sixth of the population. That is totally at odds with the figures cited above. Although I have a reasonable amount of respect for American University, the page cited seemed to be a PR office, and the fact that some staffer pulled together a bunch of numbers does not make me believe something that is totally at odds with what I have seen in decades of living here.[/quote]
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