[blam]

"My husband just got home after training MI employees that work in the city of Detroit. He continues to be appalled at their lack of literacy, their unprofessional conduct, their whining, etc."

Forty seven percent of the people living in Detroit and New Orleans cannot read or write.

[kearnyirish2]

“Forty seven percent of the people living in Detroit and New Orleans cannot read or write.”

Newark must have similar stats; high school graduates wouldn’t have graduated grammar school in a neighborhood that matters. Whole blocks of tenements without a single book...

[SgtHooper]

Can they read, “Halt!”, “Do Not Trespass”, “Trespassers will be shot!”? No? Then they can blame their union edgeekators.