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Literacy key to excelling on the job
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
September 28, 2011
As smartphones, tablets and web-based technology take hold in the workplace, a young person with inadequate literacy skills won’t be able to use these devices on the job, let alone perform the basic written and input tasks that employers expect… “You can essentially map poverty rates against literacy rates in the country and see very clearly that they intersect… You would also see that those Canadians with lower literacy rates have higher rates of chronic disease, cancers, heart disease and diabetes.”
Tags: Health, participation, standard of living, youth
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