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Project Literacy of Greater Bergen County Gala Fundraiser
Fri, Oct 11
|Stony Hill Inn
w/NBC news anchor Pat Battle, student honoree, Jamila Campbell, and author Kristen Houghton at the Project Literacy of Greater Bergen County Gala.
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Time & Location
Oct 11, 2019, 6:00 PM – 11:00 PM EDT
Stony Hill Inn, 231 Polifly Rd, Hackensack, NJ 07601, USA
About the event
- Illiteracy is a life-long sentence. Help us help others to improve lives through literacy.
- There is a clear correlation between adult illiteracy and crime. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report (2003), 75% of America’s state prison inmates, almost 59% of federal inmates, and 69% of jail inmates did not complete high school.
- More than 65% of all state and federal corrections inmates can be classified as low literate.
- Low health literacy costs between $106 billion and $236 billion each year in the U.S.
- Seventy-seven million Americans have only a 2-in-3 chance of correctly reading an over-the-counter drug label or understanding their child’s vaccination chart.
- Low literacy’s effects cost the U.S. $225 billion or more each year in non-productivity in the workforce, crime and loss of tax revenue due to unemployment.
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