>Although there are ample references for the rest of the assertions in >your post, Anonymous, I can't find any resource which lists anything >near the adult illiteracy rate quoted for Camden, NJ. Resources, >please? Told to me by a woman (This was in the early 90's) who worked in a high position in the Camden mayors office. The federal govt. had been on their back (the cities) earlier because they had such an extremely poor response to the US census, way below par. At the time of the census the city estimated at or near a 50% illiteracy rate in the adult population as one of the reason the census failed there. She emphasized they knew this before the cen us was mailed out, they didn't invent it to cover their backs after the fact, and showed the eviden e to the federals to make them back off. [Posted in FML issue 4817]