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Grand Rapids Community College

Enhancing Adult Literacy: MI Impact Grant’s Everyday Integration

TL/DR - Around 54% of adults between 17 and 74 years old read below a sixth-grade level in the US, with these figures often coinciding with areas of poor health and poverty. The Literacy Center of West Michigan is aiming to combat this, and was recently awarded a $1.12 million MI Impact Grant from the Michigan Department of Labor and Economic…