People have better access to education, but many adults cannot read and write. In what ways are they disadvantaged without these skills? What can governments do to solve this problem?

The past 30 years have witnessed the popularity of higher education.

However

, there are still a great number of

people

who are illiterate.

This

essay will discuss the problems unschooled

adults

have and relevant measures that

governments

can take to reduce the

adult

illiteracy rate. There are two primary difficulties that unschooled

adults

will encounter. The chief problem is that they are unlikely to find a well-paid job. Nowadays, many companies that can offer desirable pay packages are looking for employees who have decent academic qualifications, like a

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degree, a college diploma or certain training certificates. Considering

this

,

adults

who are unable to read and write will inevitably end up with low-paid jobs,

such

as

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cleaning or doing heavy manual labour. Another problem is that it is hard for uneducated

adults

to start

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happy

family

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. To be more specific, if an

adult

is incapable of reading and writing, he or she will have the difficulty in effectively communicating with others both in the written and oral form.

This

leads to many problems when he or she is trying to maintain a long-lasting relationship.

For example

, there are researches showing that

people

who are unlettered are incompetent

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with intimate

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and many of them tend to divorce several times. In a bid to eliminate

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adult

illiterates, there are some effective solutions that

governments

can take. One possible solution is to give economic support to poor

families

. The root cause of the high

adult

illiteracy rate is that many

families

are financially unable to send their children to receive

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education. Many of those impoverished

families

are still struggling with basic survival needs

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so

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parents have to ask their children to work as early as possible rather than go to school. When these children grow up, they become illiterate.

According to

this

, if more financial revenue were spent on subsidizing destitute

families

, more

people

would have the opportunity to attend school.

For example

, if

governments

provided students who are from low-income households with more student loan programs and more scholarships, more

adults

would be well-educated in the future. In conclusion,

people

who are unable to read and write have problems

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finding

well-paid

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job

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and

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long-lasting intimate relationships, and

governments

should give financial support to low-income

families

to decrease the

adult

illiteracy rate.