Report: Nearly Half Of Detroiters Can’t Read

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DETROIT (WWJ) â€" According to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are "Âfunctionally illiterate." The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund on Wednesday.

WWJ Newsradio 950 spoke with the Fund's Director, Karen Tyler-Ruiz, who explained exactly what this means.

"Not able to fill out basic forms, for getting a job â€" 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,"Â Tyler-Ruiz said.

Some of the Detroit suburbs also have high numbers of functionally illiterate: 34 percent in Pontiac and 24 percent in Southfield.  

"For other major urban areas, we are a little bit on the high side"¦ We compare, slightly higher, to Washington D.C.'s urban population, in certain ZIP codes in Washington D.C. and in Cleveland," she said.

Tyler-Ruiz said only 10 percent of those who can't read have gotten any help to resolve it.

The report will be used to provide better training for local workers.


http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2011/05/04/report-nearly-half-of-detroiters-cant-read/

Guess it's Whitey's fault.

 

[Riddlewire]

I don't know why they think this is such a complex issue.
Single mothers with multiple children have no time to devote to the early education of their offspring. With a more singular focus, they could easily teach basic literacy to their child.
The answer is simple.
Since the illiterate children of these single mothers invariably are sired by non-white men (regardless of the race of the mother), all minority men should be sterilized (chemically castrated) after their first act of procreation. This would alleviate the burden on single mothers in Detroit to educate their children* with the added benefit of reducing the criminal tendencies of half of the population (the sterilization results in the loss of male hormone production).
If implemented today, Detroit would be a thriving metropolis within two generations.


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*I understand that some women would have multiple children with multiple dark-skinned men, but that still has the effect of reducing the available pool of those fertile men. So the end result is the same.

 

[Colonel_Reb]

Dang, Riddle! You are on a roll as of late!

 

[white is right]

Watch the tv show Hardcore Pawn and you will understand why this stat is probably true. All of the people that are left in Detroit are probably borderline retarded. Even the White people that live in downtown Detroit are a few bricks short of a load....