 | 25%
percent of adults in Florida function at the lowest level of literacy
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| 1,465,000 adults residing in
Region V functioning
at the lowest level of literacy.
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Approximately 13% of Florida’s
population is foreign-born. |
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| Adults of Spanish
origin account for 12% of the state’s
population. Florida has the 4th
largest Hispanic-populated state in the United States.
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| The
counties of Dade and Broward, both in Region V, have
67% of Florida’s total Hispanic population.
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| Florida has the highest dropout rate
in the nation. Approximately 41%
of students quit before high school graduation.
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| The state
of Florida has the 4th largest
prison population in the nation. Approximately
76% of the inmates test below the ninth grade
level. Almost 85%
had not completed high school. |
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| Nearly
85% of Florida’s juvenile delinquents are
illiterate.
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| 50% of the unemployed adults in Florida cannot
read or write.
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