1 in 4 ‘Chicagoland’ adults is functionally illiterate

(AMERICAN THINKER) – Cook County, or Chicagoland, has a higher illiteracy rate than Illinois, as well as the rest of the nation, which is either proof that the Democrats suck at successful policy-making, or dumbing down the people is the agenda.

Here’s this, from a new education report by Hannah Schmid at the Illinois Policy Institute: “One-fifth of Illinois adults are functionally illiterate, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. … In Cook County, 25% of adults are functionally illiterate.”

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So what does it mean to be a “functionally illiterate” adult? Well according to Schmid, the functionally illiterate person “cannot understand the meaning of sentences, locate information on pages or complete simple forms.”