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Much hand-wringing has already been written about Gen Alpha being illiterate iPad babies who are doomed to a society of our own making, but Carter doesn’t think the rise of “chat” is any more special than the popularization of any other slang term.

That’s especially true when an economically illiterate news media stokes consumer fears.

In the last major study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2003, 60 percent of incarcerated people were found to be functionally phonemically illiterate—that is, although they could pronounce written words, they could not parse meaning from texts written above a fourth-grade level.

When Pedro Almodóvar was a young boy, his mother would read and translate letters for their illiterate neighbors.

People have published financial advice for generations, but vertical video apps have empowered financially illiterate creators to push their ideas directly to other financially illiterate users.