67% Hispanic immigrants in U.S. 15 years or more are functionally illiterate

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Learning English is a much bigger hurdle for immigrants than earlier believed, with most Hispanics being functional illiterates, even those who have been in the United States for over a decade.

A new analysis of immigrants found that 63 percent of Hispanics have a “below basic” understanding of English, making them illiterate.

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