The National Commission on Adult Literacy, in Reach Higher, America,  
calls for an expenditure (in 2008 dollars), for the new adult  
education and workforce skills system it recommends, of $20 billion  
in public funding. It also calls for an unspecified amount in private  
sector funding, creation of a new national trust to help support  
development of this system which would be supported by both public  
and private funds, and use of technology on an unprecedented scale to  
help achieve increased enrollments and bring down per-student program  
costs.

The Center for Labor Management Studies at Northeastern recently  
calculated the affects of inflation by 2020 on the $20 billion figure  
and for private sector funding. The results are presented in a short  
paper prepared for CAAL as part of its follow-up work on behalf of  
the Commission. The paper is posted for interested parties at the  
CAAL website, www.caalusa.org (Publications page, item NC-CAAL3),  
along with other recent analyses for CAAL/the Commission.




Gail Spangenberg
President
Council for Advancement of Adult Literacy
1221 Avenue of the Americas - 46th Fl
New York, NY 10020
212-512-2362, F: 212-512-2610
www.caalusa.org



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