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Thursday on the Afternoon Shift, host Steve Edwards will talk with experts about our continuing literacy problem. We’ll discuss why it happens and who’s trying to fix it.Our panel will include Betsy Rubin, an Adult & Family Literacy Specialist at Literacy Works in Chicago.

For refugees that did not have access to formal education in their home country, learning to read and write for the first time in a foreign language is especially difficult.

At the Harold Washington Library in Chicago, a cyber navigator’s central job is to help people learn to use computers. But because much of what they do is help people access government services or find a job, cyber navigators are almost like digital social workers.

For Front and Center, Michigan Radio’s Jenn White hosted a one-hour show on June 13 exploring the ways in which low-literacy can affect an American’s civic participation.

At St. Leonard's half-way house, former inmates can learn basic educational skills to help them transition back into society. For Megan Doherty's full story read and listen to: Shrinking prison budgets eliminate educational opportunities. 

For Front and Center, Wisconsin Public Radio’s Veronica Rueckert will host a one-hour show exploring the culture of literacy in the Great Lakes region on June 12th at 10 a.m. CST.

There are no language markers common to all homosexual or same-sex identified individuals.