True or False? Children in families with incomes below the poverty line are less likely to be read aloud to everyday than are children in families with incomes at or above the poverty line.
True
100
True or False? Children living in poverty have a higher number of absenteeism or leave school all together because they are more likely to have to work or care for family members.
True
100
Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
100
Women earn a median weekly wage that's only __% of a man's weekly median wage in the U.S.
(Nearest 10%)
81%
100
Name the 3 EOP programs.
BAHIA, BPL, John Muir
200
Which country has a higher literacy rate US or Hungary?
Hungary
200
True or False? Dropout rate for 16-24 year olds from low income families are 3 times more likely compared to higher incomes.
False, it’s actually seven times more likely.
200
Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
200
Number of women running Fortune 500 companies in 2011
12
200
What are the three issues that WLP aims to address?
Illiteracy, gender inequity, poverty
300
What are the country’s two most literate cities?
Washington DC and Seattle
300
What is the Poverty Line (hint: for a family of four)?
(To the nearest thousand)
$23, 021
300
Animal Farm
George Orwell
300
Number of women in the 112th US Congress (out of 535 seats)