Picture This! The Real Cost of Prison Expansion at the Philadelphia Reads Mural

Governor Corbett’s proposed budget cuts PA’s Adult Literacy funding by 5%.  This comes after last year’s 17% cut, and means that almost $3 million has been taken from adult and family literacy programs over the past two years. 

These cuts come at a time when high unemployment makes literacy skills even more important for job searching, and when 13% of adults in Pennsylvania lack basic literacy skills.

The $3 million cut to adult literacy is equal to the cost of about 30 of the 5,000-plus new prison beds that are currently being built in Pennsylvania.

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