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more about #stats more comments → Smitros: 30 million Americans--seemingly half of whom passed through my classrooms when I was teaching freshman comp. I tried, really. I guess it didn't take. more » skahammer: OK, a tangent: I actually have no faith at all in institutional attempts to define what constitutes "illiteracy" or "problems with basic reading and w... more » Almostbanned: Except that's not what the article says at all. It says that 30% of adults 'have difficulty reading and writing' which is not the same thing. And that... more » pufflehuff: That is a sad stat. more » gawkimo: OMG! It's the Damocles of literacy! (Like that? Like what I did there?) OK, time to go outside. . . more » DeadliestSin: This is my arguement when people complain about that book - at least the kids are reading SOMETHING! more » flossy: I take it that means that 7% of people still registered as Republicans can read? Now that is scary. more » i'm a bottle: That puts us below Peru and Turkey. Go USA! more » Shadowlayer: Depending on how you look at it, this crisis is a disaster or a bliss. Sure if you are/were a big real state developer who bought property at inflated... more » OMG! Ponies!: Another study that willfully ignores underemployment and people who have stopped looking for jobs to cushion the data. more » CountryClubRepublican: Actually, we are not in an official recession, yet, but you wouldn't know that from the media. more » homoviper: If it's not that bad then why does it seem like it? Are they only measuring with layoffs? more » gawkimo: Yay! Where's my credit card? more » forwardmotion: Note the direction the red line is taking. more » Private Hangnail: Sort of like receiving the news that only one foot is gangrenous. more » -
#stats
30 Million Americans (14%) 16 or older are illiterate. Which kinda makes reading Twilight okay.
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#newdepression
539,000 people lost their jobs in April. Atrocious figure, but fewer than in March.
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#recessionomics
You Call This a Downturn?
The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has measured this recession against past ones and found it wanting. It will take more than twice as many layoffs before it counts as "harsh." Take that, doom-mongers! -
#literacy
Internet Not Responsible for Rise in Reading, Says Luddite
Reading is up! But don't dream of crediting the Internet for that phenomenon. Dana Gioia, the Bush-appointed chair of the National Endowment of the Arts, would sooner give himself a papercut. More » -
