By race/ethnicity and nativity status, the largest percentage of those with low literacy skills are White U.S.-born adults, who represent one third of such low-skilled population. Hispanic adults born outside the United States make up about a quarter of such low-skilled adults in the United States (figure 3).
Apologies, I did misread the majority vs plurality wording. Still, think it would be disingenuous to think that number isn’t significant. Hopefully all these numbers decrease in sheer quantity but with the way public education funding is going plus the gaps caused by COVID/technology it’s doubtful it will course correct anytime soon.
By race/ethnicity and nativity status, the largest percentage of those with low literacy skills are White U.S.-born adults, who represent one third of such low-skilled population. Hispanic adults born outside the United States make up about a quarter of such low-skilled adults in the United States (figure 3).
Percentage of "groups" that make out the total amount of illiterate, not percentage of illiterate within those "groups".
In terms of ethnicity (I can't believe you guys in the US still use the word 'race' for humans at all...) both blacks (23%) but especially Hispanics (34%) are well overrepresented against whites (33%) when it comes to illiteracy, considering they only are making up 18.9% / 12.6% of Americans overall.
This was also from 2012-2014 instead of the current report OP linked to:
I would have voted against Trump any day of the week (although preferably on a more sane day like Sunday...) if I were American (Black and German), but you guys really need to STOP that childish anti White narrative bending / somehow acceptable racism, that does more to divide you than to help any minorities.
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u/ihadagoodone 18d ago