{"id":5803,"date":"2011-05-06T02:30:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T02:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2011-05-06T02:30:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T02:30:45","slug":"report-nearly-half-of-detroit-adults-functionally-illiterate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2011\/05\/report-nearly-half-of-detroit-adults-functionally-illiterate\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Nearly Half of Detroit Adults \u201cFunctionally Illiterate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/abandoned-detroit-school.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5804\" title=\"abandoned-detroit-school\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenixnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/abandoned-detroit-school.jpg?resize=490%2C317\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/abandoned-detroit-school.jpg?w=670&amp;ssl=1 670w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/abandoned-detroit-school.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\"><strong>DETROIT (WWJ)<\/strong> \u2013 According to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are \u201dfunctionally illiterate.\u201d The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional Workforce Fund on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">WWJ Newsradio 950 spoke with the Fund\u2019s Director, Karen Tyler-Ruiz, who explained exactly what this means.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cNot able to fill out basic forms, for getting a job \u2014 those types of basic everyday (things). Reading a prescription; what\u2019s on the bottle, how many you should take\u2026 just your basic everyday tasks,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cI don\u2019t really know how they get by, but they do. Are they getting by well? Well, that\u2019s another question,\u201d Tyler-Ruiz said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Some of the Detroit suburbs also have high numbers of functionally illiterate: 34 percent in Pontiac and 24 percent in Southfield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">\u201cFor other major urban areas, we are a little bit on the high side\u2026 We compare, slightly higher, to Washington D.C.\u2019s urban population, in certain ZIP codes in Washington D.C. and in Cleveland,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">Tyler-Ruiz said only 10 percent of those who can\u2019t read have gotten any help to resolve it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000;\">The report will be used to provide better training for local workers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/detroit.cbslocal.com\/2011\/05\/04\/report-nearly-half-of-detroiters-cant-read\/\">Fuente<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT (WWJ) \u2013 According to a new report, 47 percent of Detroiters are \u201dfunctionally illiterate.\u201d The alarming new statistics were released by the Detroit Regional..<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[152,166,181,97],"tags":[347],"class_list":["post-5803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-government","category-labor","category-us-news","tag-workers-struggle"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redphoenix.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/abandoned-detroit-school.jpg?fit=670%2C434&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}