Illiteracy shockingly high in L.A. [dailynews.com]

[truthisfreedom]

so is this a conspiracy between the 'thugs and big business, to create a class of people who can be duped because they can't read?

http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200~20954~2388909,00.html

lliteracy shockingly high in L.A.

Half of workers unable to read


By Rachel Uranga
Staff Writer


Continued immigration and a stubborn high school dropout rate have stymied efforts to improve literacy in Los Angeles County, where more than half the working-age population can't read a simple form, a report released Wednesday found.

Alarmingly, only one in every 10 workers deemed functionally illiterate is enrolled in literacy classes and half of them drop out within three weeks, said the study by the United Way of Greater Los Angeles. "It's an emergency situation," said Mayor James Hahn, adding that poor literacy rates could jeopardize the region's economy by driving out high-tech businesses and other industries that pay well.

In the Los Angeles region, 53 percent of workers ages 16 and older were deemed functionally illiterate, the study said. That percentage dropped to 44 percent in the greater San Fernando Valley -- which includes Agoura Hills and Santa Clarita -- but soared to 85 percent in some pockets of the Valley.

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[mbperrin]

1. Sure, check out "Blade Runner" at the video

store for a look at LA in the future.

[laruemtt]

2. when do we officially get

3rd world status again?

[Spinzonner]

3. That's nothing to how bad it is in W.H.

[dumpster_baby]

4. Hispanic immigrants are the cause of it

Hispanic immigrants. THey do not get much schooling down there. And their uneducated state lasts for at least a couple of generations, generally. The mothers do want education, in a way at least, but the fathers do not respect it, generally.

However, I have made my peace with the Hispanic culture, with all its many faults. I am now convinced that they can be, and even are, good leftists, in fact much better than most native Democrats.

So, bring 'em on, I now say. THey will eventually get educated, and in the meantime, I think it is clear that they will vote democratic, at least in far greater numbers than whites. And Hispanic immigration can be the thing that crushes the culture wars advantage stranglehold on rural white America, now held by the GOP.

We just have to find a way to legalize a bunch of the Hispanics that are here now, and allow them to vote. Once Kerry gets in, I think he can do something to that end.

Their numbers can turn America to the left. Look at South America and Central America. That is the new core of Leftism in this world. I find it funny that the GOP-Corporate team has been the main force behind the labor market manipulations that has been the cause of so much illegal and legal immigration. But it will be their undoing, ultimately. Leftism will flow up from Latin America with the immigrants. THAT will be the real invasion.

[lapfog_1]

5. And yet businesses constantly complain that they have

a hard time finding literate workers.

I think if you went back 70 years and found a young person
just graduated high school, you would be shocked to compare the
level of education with current high school graduates.

Clearly we are becoming a third world country, and much
in the model of other North and South American "ownership"
societies... a huge differential between the ownership class
and the masses (and not much in between).

[SharonAnn]

6. Perhaps, but 70 years ago, fewer finished High School.

It was much more accepted to quit as soon as one could and get a job.