8/5/2004 06:58:05 AM|||D. Sterling Brayboy|||This is something that I have given some considerable thought. I knew that this generation was more of a video generation, but what were the stats on reading?
For that answer, I went to the website for The National Endowment for the Arts. Apparently, they did a study entitled “Reading at Risk”. The biggest surprise in this study is that they found a -28% decline in literary reading between 1982 and 2002 in the 18-24 year age group. That is very scary. Only 37.1% of African-Americans were found to have read some type of literature in a 12-month period ending August 2002.

If less people are reading, then what are people basing their political views on besides what they hear from the media?

Check out the website for Project Vote Smart. There you will be able to see for yourself how our reps in DC have voted. (Please note: for whatever reason, Bush's records on what bills he signed or vetoed are not on this site [seems a little fishy to me--especially the reason they give on this site]. A quick search online will give you that info).
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