65% of Fourth Graders read below grade level

66% of Eighth Graders read below grade level

45% of children in middle and high income families struggle with reading

85% of juveniles in the US court system are illiterate

22% of American adults are illiterate

50% of chronically unemployed US adults are illiterate

49% of American adults cannot read proficiently

60% of adults prisoners in the US are illiterate