America's workforce is facing an education and skills crisis. Among the 30 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the United States is the only one in which younger adults are less educated than the previous generation. "Unless we invest now to educate and train our workforce, America risks its economic viability and its ability to compete in a global marketplace where knowledge is the key to success." To meet America's 21st Century adult education needs, the National Commission on Adult Literacy calls for creating a new "Adult Education and Workforce Skills System that will prepare out-of-school adults for postsecondary education and job training readiness and enable their success in the 21st Century workplace." To achieve the goals the Commission recommends, Congress must pass a comprehensive new Adult Education and Economic Growth Act "to overhaul, connect, and expand federal adult education and workforce skills training." [For the full report, see ED506605.]