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Our Mission:
“ . . . to create an environment that encourages literacy as a catalyst for imagination, possibility, and potential.”
– Lumpkin County Literacy Coalition By-Laws
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“Literacy” is defined as an individual’s ability to read, write, and speak in English, compute and solve problems at levels of proficiency necessary to function on the job and in society to achieve one’s goals, and develop one’s knowledge and potential.
- National Literacy Act of 1991 |
The Challenge
• One in five Americans functions at the lowest level of literacy.*
• Workers without a high school diploma earn 60 cents compared to the dollar earned by a high school graduate.*
• 85% of juvenile offenders have reading problems.*
• Five billion dollars a year (estimated) is spent in public assistance to people who can’t get a job due to low literacy.* MORE
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Imagination Library
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