illiteracy

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Is it laziness, illiteracy or the ultimate flex?

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

White illiteracy rates, for instance, were four times higher in the South than in the North.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2025

She fears that the absence of this support, due to fear and lack of funds, could increase rates of illiteracy.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025

In a lesser-known history, the federal government helped bring public education to Southern white children, whose illiteracy rates prior to Reconstruction were five times as high as in the North.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2025

If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations.

From "1984" by George Orwell