Literacy Network of Los Angeles

We serve learners, literacy providers, and employers in the following counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura.

Illiteracy affects us all, and the numbers are overwhelming:

• Los Angeles has the highest number of undereducated adults of any major metroplitan area of the U.S. – 3.8 million people.
• 56% of L.A. County residents speak a language other than English at home.
• 53% of all working-age adults in Los Angeles cannot read well enough to use a bus schedule or complete a job application.
• 70% of adults with low-literacy skills live in poverty.
• 75% of unemployed adults have reading and writing difficulties.

Low Literacy Population and Literacy Services - Los Angeles County, 2003