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When Oliver Twist was published (1838), a third of the British population couldn't read[1]. [1] https://www1.umassd.edu/ir/resources/laboreducation/literacy.pd

• rjkennedy98 9y ago
  14 percent of adult Americans demonstrated a “below basic” literacy level in 2003, and 29 percent exhibited a “basic” reading level. That is with public education.