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Recruited, trained and utilized 300+ volunteer tutors.
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Volunteers provided over 20,000 hours of tutoring and other volunteer work.
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550 students are enrolled in either the Basic Reading or ESL Program.
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22 students have entered employment.
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5 students received their GED. |
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55 Tutor and Mentor Trainings held. |
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7 students have entered into other educational or secondary training. |
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6 students have reduced their need for public assistance
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12 students have begun working towards or obtained citizenship.
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13 students have passed the TOEFL.
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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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