Americans Found to Read Less Literature Than Ever

Trend affects all segments of the populace, says report from arts endowment

The populace of the United States may be divided by race, age, gender, region, income, and educational level. But according to a report issued last week by the National Endowment for the Arts, there is at least one thing that brings Americans together: No group reads as much literature as it once did. If present trends continue, American aliteracy will only deepen over the next generation: The steepest decline

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