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Easy Voter Redesigned and Relaunched
43 percent of people with the lowest literacy skills live in poverty, 17 percent receive food stamps, and 70 percent have either no job or a part-time job. Workers who lack a high school diploma earn a mean monthly income of $452, compared to $1,829 for those with a bachelor's degree. The federal government provided $361 million for adult education programs in 1996. This funding enables millions of people to participate in basic education programs that help people help themselves. Federal adult education funds leverage an additional $800 million each year in state funds for literacy, and millions of dollars in private funding. Source: National Institute for Literacy
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Easy Voter Redesigned and Relaunched Easy Voter and the Easy Reading Voter Guide also offers nonpartisan information about candidates, parties, and ballot propositions in language that is tailored for voters who have low literacy skills in English. There is also a section for voters who speak Spanish primarily. The newly relaunched Easy Voter contains registration, party, and voting information for the upcoming November 2000 election. The Easy Reading Voter Guide for November will be available online in mid September, but users can order print copies of the guide right now. A version on CD is available to newspapers. The print and CD versions are available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean. Coordinated by Susan S. Clark, Easy Voter's content is based on research supported by the California State Library in grants to the Santa Clara County Library Reading Program. Special thanks go to the many adult literacy students from the California Literacy Campaign who helped design this material. |
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