It took a number of years before Congress was able to pass a law demanding a literacy test for immigrants.

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He says what is most important is that cities support the kinds of literacy methods that the study examines.

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He says the extent and quality of long-term literacy is important to individual economic success and quality of life in a community and a nation.

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Former President George Bush formed the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy last year.

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He is also working on a similar literacy study for cities around the world.

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John Miller says that literacy is an important sign of the nation's well-being.

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The Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy is based in Washington,D.C.

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We asked a literacy professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,Tennessee.

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April is National Financial Literacy Month in the United States.

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Some proposed a literacy test.

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The races which would suffer most under a literacy test would be those with which the English-speaking people have never united, and who are most different from the great majority of the people of the United States."

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India's literacy rate is 64 percent. But studies have shown that a number of those counted as literate can barely read or write.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

Each year since 1995,the company has commissioned a survey on science literacy and workplace issues.

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Fostering financial literacy among young people and preparing them for the workplace has been the mission of Junior Achievement since it was founded in 1919.

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