A Never Ending Challenge

A Never Ending Challenge

A growing disability in American today is illiteracy. Challenge of illiteracy impacts every part of your life. What jobs do illiterate people have to chose from?  How far will an illiterate person get in America or in most  Industrialisation nation and some Industrialisation nation? What modern tools would an illiterate person miss out on using? How do politics affect an illiterate person? Can an illiterate person overcome their disability and succeed? Illiteracy is a never ending challenge.

When a person needs a job they look in the newspaper, internet, or by word of mouth. To look in newspapers a person most be able to read and if a person is illiterate, then the newspaper will be the last place to look for an job. An illiterate person will not be able to find, look up, research, anything on the Internet. Word of mouth will be the only job source a person would be able to take. If a family member or friends help them get a job it doesn't mean that they will succeed in that job. Most jobs require some reading but all jobs require writing, example filling out time sheets and the ability to correctly spell one's name which is actually a bigger issue than you would think. Also if the job requires travel, need to be able to read maps and street names, for example a job that most feel an illiterate can do is landscaping but a landscaper often has to read product names, product directions, landscaping designs and have to read street maps. 

In most Industrialized nations and some Industrializing nations education is very important. Most illiterate people don't have a high school diploma, in American with a high school diploma, the average income is about $35,000 and are mostly working class. The people who don't have an high school diplomas are working poor or are underclass, with average incomes under $20,000 a year. Living between $20-35,000 an year is not a comfortable, they are living pay check to pay check . The jobs that illiterates have don't pay well and most of the Americans who are in those classes require assistant from the government.

When illiteracy is brought to my mind, I think of everything they miss out on. One being modern tools, like computers, cell phones, using the Internet, and having a drivers licence. Computers are the greatest modern tool and everything the computer does requires reading and writing of some kind.  Some cell phone an illiterate can use no problem but with the modern technology cell phones have became little computers, for the most part a cell phone can do whatever a computer can do. The Internet is the main source for everything these days and it requires reading and some writing, being illiterate one will not be able to navigate around the websites. I know a lot of people drive without having an license but to get a license you have to take a written test. There are so many things illiterate makes people miss out on.

Politics play a role in everything that happens in America. If a person is a illiterate and a law is passed to cut a government assistant program that the person cant live without, what happens to the illiterate person? A new laws pass that makes employers test their employee and the employee is illiterate fails but is great at their job, again what happens to the illiterate? What happen if an illiterate person gets fired and doesn't understand why? The most important is knowing about government agencies can help protect them from abuse. To know to vote  for laws and candidate that can protect them as well.

America has so many programs that can help a people of all ages learn to read and write. If your illiterate, how do you find about those programs? Illiteracy can be a life long disability and will always be an never ending challenge. I feel that at any age one can learn to read and write but has to learn and want it bad enough.  In a America being an illiterate is not being able to read or write in English but if they have the ability to speak or write another language it is possible to learn to read and write English.