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Recruited, trained and utilized 478 volunteers.
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Worked with 395 active tutors.
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Volunteers provided over 9,700 hours of tutoring and other volunteer work.
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425 students were enrolled in either Basic or ESL Program.
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21 students reported obtaining a job.
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42 students reported an improvement in their employability skills.
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25 students reported retaining employment.
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35 students improved their current job.
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4 students received their GED.
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10 students reported entering into other educational or secondary training.
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15 students reported obtaining citizenship skills.
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22 students reported obtaining their driver’s license.
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10 students reported passing the TOEFL exam.
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18 students reported getting involved in community activities.
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Held 37 Tutor and Mentor Trainings.
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Added 2 new drop-in centers.
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One in five residents of Erie County is functionally illiterate.
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One in three residents of the city of Buffalo is functionally illiterate.
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On a national level, for every $1 spent by Literacy Volunteers to tutor adults, $33 in economic benefit is returned to the overall economy. Economic Impact Analysis conducted by AT Kearney, 1999
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If parents can't read it is likely that their children won't read well either. |
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61% of low-income homes have no books in them. |
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Between 41% and 44% of adults with the lowest literacy skills live in poverty. (Based on federal poverty guidelines.) |
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New York State funding for adult literacy has been frozen at the same level since 1988.
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60% of prison inmates are illiterate.
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85% of juvenile offenders have reading problems.
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76% of adults on public assistance are illiterate or unable to read more than the simplest of texts.
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Welfare recipients with the lowest educational skills stay on welfare the longest.
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For the first time ever, nearly one-fifth of America's children speak a language other than English at home.
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