Literacy is the ability to read, write, compute, and use technology at a level that enables an individual to reach his or her full potential as a parent, employee, and community member. 

• Washtenaw Literacy's detailed White Paper 2014: The Impact of Adult Illiteracy in Washtenaw County provides information regarding the most recent local and state adult literacy statistics and Washtenaw Literacy solutions to the crisis.

• Washtenaw Literacy - Who, What, Why, How

• Making Skills Everyone's Business 2015: A Call to Transform Adult Learning in the United States. Published by the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE) at the U.S. Department of Education this report is a follow-up to the 2013 PIACC report and offers seven strategies "grounded in evidence and informed by effective and emerging practices", that hold promise for "improving the conditions that create and perpetuate poor literacy, numeracy, and problem solving."