“Rockland LiteracyInitiative”

A Coalition of Business, Education and Community Leaders Providing Basic Reading

Skills for Rockland Adults Who Want Them

The Economics of Literacy

An Adult Without a High School Diploma Earns 42% Less Than an Adult With a High School

Diploma.

High School Dropouts Have an Unemployment Rate 4 Times

Greater Than That of High School Graduates.

50% of Fortune 500 Companies Underwrite Remedial Employee Training Skills at an Annual Cost

of $300 Million a Year.

50% of the Chronically Unemployed Are Not Functionally Literate.

33% of All Welfare Recipients Are Not Considered to Be

Functionally Literate.

It Is Estimated That Limited Literacy Skills Cost American Taxpayers $20 Billion in Lost

Wages, Profits, and Productivity Annually.

Imagine being unable to…

Read a bedtime story to a childScan a newspaperRead a street sign

Fill out an employment applicationRead a medicine bottle

One in five of your neighbors. May not be able to….

Read a menu

Write a check

Vote

Get a driver’s license

Make Tomorrow Better Enrich Someone’s life…

Tell them about a free learn how to read

program available now at any participating Rockland Library!

“Teach Someone How to Fish and They Will Never Go Hungry”

“Teach Someone How to Read and They Will Live a Richer Life!”

The “Literacy Volunteers of Rockland County” are looking for one-on-one

tutors to help adults learn basic reading skills. Enroll in a class at any

participating library. Volunteer online at www.literacyrockland.org

“The Ability to Read Is a Gift: Share It, Become a Volunteer Tutor”

Nearly 40,000 Residents Over Age 21 in Rockland County Lack the Literacy Skills to Understand

Prescription Labels, Election Ballots or Job Application Forms.

Most of these men and woman are

unable to find employment,

acquire a driver's license, or scan

a newspaper.

YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

The “Literacy Volunteers of Rockland County” are looking for one-on-one

tutors to help adults learn basic reading skills. Enroll in a class at any participating library. Volunteer online

at www.literacyrockland.org

Literacy Volunteers of Rockland County, Inc

Is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing student-

centered English literacy services to adults in Rockland County, acting as

a community resource for the advancement of literacy.

Contact Literary Volunteers of Rockland County, Inc.

www.literacyrockland.org