LogFAQs > #976616803

A dead link in a 4-month-old article presenting year-old data? Big oof. That happens often enough with older articles that I don't put too much stock in it (except to look for other sources to corroborate it), but for something that recent it makes the whole thing seem fabricated.

Also of note, those are specifically *English* literacy statistics, and given the relatively high populations of those that speak Spanish as a first language in California, Texas, and New Mexico, it kind of makes sense that they'd have a relatively high population with limited English literacy. With that in mind, using literacy rates as a proxy for education doesn't make a lot of sense.