The decline can lead to poor health outcomes and a loss of GDP, says Daphne Greenberg of Georgia State University.

The Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine ... avoiding long words and technical terms, and including basic diagrams and pictures can make the text more accessible. In addition, using ...

also showed that about one in five adults struggle with basic literacy and numeracy. While England performs better than the OECD average in these areas, the number of adults scoring at or below ...

Those workers on average earn around £1,500 less per year than they would if they had a basic level of literacy, according to the research. Getty Images Adults with low-level literacy have ...

Learning to read can become exponentially more difficult for older students and adults who have fallen behind, creating grave concerns as the number of individuals struggling with literacy into ...

On average, U.S. adults correctly answered just 48% of the index’s basic money questions. Here's why financial literacy remains low, which communities are most affected and how to address the gap.