Mike Rogers: “If you don't read at the fourth grade level, you have a 70%…”

“What can you do from a position in Washington to improve that? Great question. 24% of fourth graders in Michigan can read at the fourth grade level. If you don't read at the fourth grade level, you have a 70% chance of going to prison or being on welfare. That's criminal. Only 24% can read at the fourth grade. We're sentencing a whole generation of Michiganders to poverty and maybe even prison. And I think we must do something.” (12:28–12:37)

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