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Thread ID: 14944 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2004-09-09
2004-09-09 20:07 | User Profile
The illiteracy rate may be 'alarmingly' high, but it is only 'shockingly' high if you've been living under a rock.
[url="http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%7E20954%7E2388909,00.html"]Illiteracy shockingly high in L.A.Half of workers unable to read [img]chrome://targetalert/content/skin/new.png[/img][/url] By Rachel Uranga Staff Writer Continued immigration and a stubborn high school dropout rate have stymied efforts to improve literacy in Los Angeles County, where more than half the working-age population can't read a simple form, a report released Wednesday found. Alarmingly, only one in every 10 workers deemed functionally illiterate is enrolled in literacy classes and half of them drop out within three weeks, said the study by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles.
2004-09-11 18:02 | User Profile
But they [I]urinate on the lawns others are unwilling to urinate on.[/I]