A 1992 URI survey of RI employers found that over 50% had trouble finding workers with the adequate reading, writing, computational, communication and problem-solving skills necessary to make them employable.

A recent national study on the impact of earning a GED found graduates had higher rates of employment and higher incomes; welfare dependency decreased; and parenting and involvement with their child's schooling improved.

The less education parents have, the lower the level of literacy among their children, even as those children become adults -- from the National Adult Literacy Survey: 1993

Children whose parents lack a high school diploma are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than are children whose parents are high school graduates -- from the National Center for Children in Poverty: 1992 report.

A national study of mothers in adult education and training programs showed that 65% of their children improved academically as a result of their mothers' participation in those programs -- from Wider Opportunities for Women: 1992.