US workers may be significantly less literate in 2030 than they are today.
The reason: Most baby boomers will be retiring and a large wave of less-educated immigrants will be moving into the workforce.
RACIST! They have family values and do jobs Americans won't do. Diversity is our strength. Multiculturalism is a good thing. We need to be tolerant.
"There is no time that I can tell you in the last hundred years" where literacy and numeracy have declined, says Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston and one of the report's authors.
"We have the possibility of transforming the American dream into the American tragedy," says Irwin Kirsch, a senior research director at ETS and the lead author of the study.
Ringing the alarm
He and the other researchers emphasize they're not saying the US is in any danger of collapse, or even that this grim scenario will come true. What they hope to do, they say, is call attention to urgent issues that affect not just many Americans' lifestyle, but the sort of democracy based on an informed middle class that the country was founded on.
the sort of democracy based on an informed middle class that the country was founded on.
Since a lot, if not most, of the Republicrat policies amount to war on exactly that constituency, one cannot help wondering (without donning a sheetmetal headress) whether or not the weakening (or outright destruction) of it is a conscious intention of the policymakers.
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Since a lot, if not most, of the Republicrat policies amount to war on exactly that constituency, one cannot help wondering (without donning a sheetmetal headress) whether or not the weakening (or outright destruction) of it is a conscious intention of the policymakers.