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Literacy and Dependency: The Literacy Skills of Welfare Recipients in the United States. Policy Information Report.

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Barton, Paul E.; Jenkins, Lynn – 1995

Data from the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey were analyzed in a study of the relationship between literacy skill levels and dependency on welfare. The study focused on the following: literacy levels in the welfare population and in different demographic groups, the relationship between educational attainment and literacy and labor force…

Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Demography, Education Work Relationship