(From Freep.com) One out of three working-age adults in Michigan — 1.7 million people — cannot read well enough to be hired for a job that will support a family. More than 40% of those potential workers, who all read below a sixth-grade level, also lack a high school diploma or GED.
The stunning statistics come from a report done for the state Council for Labor and Economic Growth, which since December has been quietly formulating a plan of attack against what may be Michigan’s greatest economic challenge: transforming adult education from a system for enhancing job skills into one that prepares undereducated, unemployed people for work.
“It’s incredible,” said Dianne Duthie, division director of lifelong learning for the Bureau of Workforce Transformation in the state Department of Energy, Labor and Economic Growth. “It would take billions of dollars to remediate them. … We’re serving 48,000 people with $33 million.”
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