Uh Cynthia baby see what you wrote above.
The armed forces seek high school graduates with decent reading and math skills to operate high-tech gizmos.
So do manufacturers. So do most every other person who is seeking to hire for any job including janitor. Part of the reason the manufacturing base is struggling is that finding workers who can read enough to tell the difference between sodium chloride and sodium carbonate becoming more difficult.
If you can't read you are not going to get a good paying job. If you can not be counted on to show up then you aren't going to get the low paying ones either.
Exactly!
If you can't read you can't be hired for those jobs.
I was assigned to help a white guy try to learn to read again. He had a terrible brain injury from a motorcycle accident. He wanted desperately to be able to read again so he could accept a job as janitor. Being able to read the labels on the bottles was critical. Sadly, there just wasn't enough gray matter left to do the job. The desire was there, but the assets were not. He did find work as an assistant janitor...on condition that he had a "senior" assistant who could read the containers so he didn't make a mistake.