Collectively, 43% (nearly half) of adult U.S. citizens face significant challenges when engaging with literary text.

https://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp

In the United States, 14% (30 million) of adults demonstrated skills in the lowest level of prose, document, and quantitative proficiencies with 11 million of these deemed “non-literate”.

https://nces.ed.gov/naal/kf_demographics.asp

Working toward a solution requires a deep understanding of the problem.

https://www.lili.press/_files/ugd/36079b_4142548c26ba492ab35e05e129cd0eaa.pdf

Believe now or believe later.