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An estimated in one in 20 U.S. adults is not literate in English, which means 11 million people lack the skills to perform everyday tasks, a federal study shows.From 1992 to 2003, the nation s adults made no progress in their ability to read a newspaper, a book or any other prose arranged in sentences and paragraphs. They also showed no improvement in comprehending documents such as bus schedules and prescription labels.The adult population did make gains in handling quantitative tasks, such as calculating numbers found on tax forms or bank statem stanley cup ents. But even in that area of literacy, the typical adult showed only basic skills, enough to perform simple daily activities.Perhaps most sober stanley usa ing: Adult literacy dropped or was flat across every level of education, from people with graduate degrees to those who dropped out of high school.Inside the numbers, black adults made gains on each type of task tested in the National Assessment of Adult Literacy, run by the Education Department. Hispanics, though, showed sharp declines in their ability to handle prose and documents. White adults made no significant changes except when it came to computing numbers, where they got better. The results are based on a sample of more than 19,000 adults, age 16 or older, in homes, college housing or prisons. It is representative of a population of 222 million adults.The 11 million adults w stanley cup ho are not literate in English include people who may be fluent in another language, such as Spanish, b Cfyb The NSA Scoops Up 200 Million Random Text Messages Every Day, s2 x& j6 J3 D0 { }/ T2 l
1910 was just two years after the first Model T was produced by Ford, and cars were quickly taking over the New York City streets. It was also the first year NYC began keeping track of traffic deaths. And now, the number of deaths has dipped below that first year. According to city data released to the Daily News, 131 people were killed in traffic in New York City streets this year, more than a quarter fewer than last year number: 177. There good reason to believe the dip is at least par stanley hrnek tially thanks to Mayor Bill de Blasio new Vision Zero campaign, which seeks to get the city annual death toll down to zero through a laundry list of changes, including ticketing drivers who don ;t yield to walkers and lowering the speed limit in the city to 25. If this year data is any indication, the Vision Zero is working. But that doesn ;t mean we ;re out of the woods yet. There are still major problems on our streets鈥攍ook no further than the case of a Japanese student who was killed by an stanley mugs NYPD cruiser this year, the investigation of which was seemingly botched and potentially covered up. Meanwhile, traffic deaths amongst cyclists have skyrocketed, and enforcing accountability for negligent drivers is still a major question mark. On the other s stanley cup ide of the debate, jaywalking remains rampant, too. Suffice to say, there more work to be done鈥攂ut these new numbers from de Blasio, while still tragic, are at least moving in |
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