These are slide I used at an "Ignite Talk" to promote the value of teaching low-level learners basic literacy skills.

1. Bob Stephenson
Executive Director
Literacy Coalition of Kokomo-Howard County, Inc.
President
Indiana Literacy Association

2. Literacy Matters
Children of parents with low
literacy skills have a 72 percent
chance of being at the lowest
reading levels themselves
72%

3. Literacy Matters
Of adults with the lowest literacy levels, 43
percent live in poverty, and 70% of adult
welfare recipients have low literacy levels.43%

4. Literacy Matters
An excess of $230 billion a year in
health care costs is linked to low adult
literacy.
$232Billion

5. Literacy Matters
Low literacy costs the U.S. at least
$225 billion each year in non-
productivity in the workforce, crime, and
loss of tax revenue due to unemployment.
$225Billion

6. Literacy Matters
Every year, one in six young adults—
more than 1.2 million—drop out of
high school.

7. Literacy Matters
About 50 percent of the 2 million
immigrants that come to the U.S. each
year lack high school education and
proficient English language skills.
50%

8. Literacy Matters
Seventy-five percent of state prison
inmates did not complete high school
or can be classified as low literate.75%

9. Literacy Matters
School
Success

10. Literacy Matters
Welfare
Costs

11. Literacy Matters
Health Care
Costs

12. Literacy Matters
Employment

13. Literacy Matters
Crime

14. Literacy Matters
But Literacy is

15. But Literacy is
America’s largest
solvable problem.

16. We know how to do this.
It just takes:
Time
Volunteers
Resources

17. Time
Can you spare
an hour a week?

18. Volunteer,
and change
someone’s future!

19. Or donate to
support our
learners and
tutors.

20. THANK YOU!
www.literacycoalition.ngo
Let’s do this.