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literacy

noun as in ability to read

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Today, financial literacy often functions as yet another wedge separating haves and have-nots, only worsening retirement prospects for the worst off Americans.

From Salon

In that way, Mitchell said, “Financial literacy can be ‘crowded out’ by redistributive social security programs such as in the U.S.”

From Salon

There are also calls for supporting schools to tackle low literacy levels and other issues that some argue date back to the slave trade.

From BBC

Between them, on Tuesday alone the royal couple visited the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, a food bank, a social housing project, a literacy initiative and a community barbecue.

From BBC

On Tuesday alone the royal couple between them visited a National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, a food bank, a social housing project, a literacy initiative, a community barbecue, meeting two leading cancer researchers, celebrating the Sydney Opera House's 50th anniversary and a naval review in Sydney Harbour.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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