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The United States of America may be the greatest place for functionally illiterate people to live in all of human history. 

An eye-popping column in The Financial Times the other day noted how people in the United States with very low literacy make about as much per hour as the average worker in Great Britain.

Is this the result of brilliant public policy, carefully crafted to boost the prospects of those on the margins?

No, it’s a byproduct of the vast, endlessly dynamic wealth-generating machine that is the American economy. 

The Financial Times also compared cohorts of low-literacy workers in the US and the UK:

“The same proportion of US workers who score stunningly low on literacy earn an average of almost $30 per hour, and two-thirds of them are in work. Their British counterparts make the equivalent of $20 and fewer than half are employed.”

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It continued, “Factory workers in the US earn 60% more than in the UK after........

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