BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA 
A PROCLAMATION 
 
ADULT EDUCATION AND FAMILY LITERACY WEEK 
 
WHEREAS: WHEREAS: WHEREAS: WHEREAS: 
THEREFORE: 
 
Approximately one in five American adults cannot read or write. In Georgia roughly 1.2 million adults over the age of 18 have not completed high school or received a GED diploma; and 
Illiteracy rates are the highest among the economically disadvantaged and are closely associated with unemployment, high crime rates, and welfare dependency; and 
Illiterate parents perpetuate an inter-generational cycle of illiteracy by being unable to teach their own children such daily tasks as how to read a medicine bottle, follow a bus schedule, do comparative shopping, make correct change, or prepare school homework; and 
Illiteracy is a social problem of American society which can be alleviated through increased public awareness, broader support for literacy programs though public libraries, workplace literacy programs, school literacy programs, and volunteer literacy programs on the local, state, and national levels; and 
I, NATHAN DEAL, Governor of the State of Georgia, do hereby proclaim September 7-11, 2015, as ADULT EDUCATION AND FAMILY LITERACY WEEK and the day of September 8 as LITERACY DAY in Georgia. 
In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the Executive Department to be affixed this 3Qth day of july in the year of our Lord two thousand fifteen. 
 
ATTEST 
 
GOVERNOR 
 
CHIEF OF STAFF