Hurricane Katrina and low literacy linked, interesting web find

Ok, here me out because my blog post title could throw you off.  I found this article on the International Herald Tribune and it’s called Hurricane Recovery Confronts Low Literacy Rate.

Here’s an excerpt…

Three years after Hurricane Katrina, residents of New Orleans are still buried in a blizzard of government paperwork. But for thousands of storm victims seeking federal aid, the challenge is made more difficult by a little-known obstacle: More than 40 percent of the city’s adults lack the literacy skills to comprehend basic government forms. And recovery programs have done little to ease the burden.

This is an aspect that never even occurred to me, but is a really issue.  I mean I could totally get lost and frustrated in a sea of paperwork that has been the government’s bureaucratic claim to fame.