> This scenario could begin playing out again and again for companies
> across the country, particularly when one considers the following
> statistics from the Department of Education's Adult Literacy Survey:
>
> · 52% of high school graduates lack the basic skills required to
> do their jobs adequately.
> · 50% of the U.S. population aged 16-65 is functionally illiterate.
> · Only 25% of high school graduates are considered to have
> excellent basic skills.
The flip side is that these companies won't hire competent smart people because they fear that we will rock the boat and unionize.
Of course we will! ;-)
See Wal-Mart's hiring policies concerning people with college degrees.
On another note, the decline in American literacy can also be seen in our public libraries, which have been stripped of books and are becoming places where books are used to decorate the fancy fucking architecture.
Chuck