Sign the Petition to Increase Funding for Adult Education
ProLiteracy: 2018
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The
lawmakers on the U.S.
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and
Education (Labor-H) need to know that funding for adult education is
essential to the success of adult learners. They need to know that this funding
creates a return on investment for economic development. Everyone in every
state needs to get involved since the full Senate will vote on appropriations.
It's
just one easy step to show our collective voice.
Let's
send a signal of public opinion to help bring about change. Officials may
ignore individual messages, but the more names that we get on our petition, the
harder it will be to ignore.
Your
Senators Need to Hear From You!
We
also urge you to contact your Senator directly
to help promote the importance of supporting a significant increase in the AEFLA/WIOA
Title II line item. The Senators on the subcommittee on Labor, Health
and Human Services, and Education (Labor-H) need to know that funding for adult
education is essential to the success of adult learners, and a return on
investment for economic development.
Why
Adult Literacy? The 7 Impacts of Low Adult Basic Skills
Why
not focus on health, workforce development, or poverty relief? The answer is
simple— adult literacy intersects with all of these. We
won’t solve these socioeconomic problems unless we build a more literate adult
population.
Adult basic education programs bring a powerful return on
investment, impacting the lives of Americans, their families, and
communities. Adult basic education helps adults break cycles of inter-generational
poverty and illiteracy by providing adults the skills they need to succeed as
workers, parents, and citizens. Research shows that better-educated parents
raise better-educated, more successful children who are less likely to end up
in poverty or prison.
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