Half?? What the actual fuck? How can half the population of a country struggle with literacy??

Upon further inspection I found: “According to a 2020 report by the U.S. Department of Education, 54% of adults in the United States have prose literacy below the 6th-grade level.”

Both of these statistics are absolutely unbelievable to me, I feel like almost anyone I come into contact with have prose literacy above a 6th grade level.

Bad for the economy, but great for politicians who “love the poorly educated”.