3 Guesses Why..............

[Mike]

A damning report released this month showing that nearly half of all adults in Detroit, Michigan are functionally illiterate has pundits and officials playing the blame game.

"The National Institute for Literacy estimates that 47% of adults (more than 200,000 individuals) in the City of Detroit are functionally illiterate, referring to the inability of an individual to use reading, speaking, writing, and computational skills in everyday life situations," a report from the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund reads.

Karen Tyler-Ruiz, the Fund's director, explained the difficulties this presents to the average illiterate.

"Not able to fill out basic forms, for getting a job — those types of basic everyday [things]. Reading a prescription; what's on the bottle, how many you should take…just your basic everyday tasks," she said. "I don't really know how they get by, but they do. Are they getting by well? Well, that's another question," she told WWJ Newsradio.


In a town where unions rule, some have pointed to the teachers' union as a possible reason for the city's high illiteracy rate.


Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/05/10/city-leaders-think-tankers-suggest-various-causes-of-detroits-high-illiteracy-rate/#ixzz1M08Q0pUx

 

[Steve]

she said. "I don't really know how they get by, but they do.

Detroit, remember, was going to be the "Model City" of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, the shining example of what the "fairness" of the welfare state can produce. Billions of dollars later, Detroit instead has become the model of everything that can go wrong when you hook people on the idea of something for nothing - a once-middle class city of nearly 2 million that is now a poverty-stricken city of less than 715,000.

care to guess how they get by?