A World Health Organization study found that the most effective way to promote children's health was to raise the literacy levels of their mothers.

Strategies for managing health care costs concern us all. Supporting literacy is an effective and non-controversial way to do that.

The AMA found that low literacy skills increase annual health care expenditures by $73 billion.

Those who read at the lowest grade levels had average annual health costs of $12,974 compared with $2,969 for the overall population studied.

Since low literacy is associated with higher health costs, poorer health, and increased probabilities of hospitalization, your support of the Boston Adult Literacy Fund reduces health costs and increases good health. Click here to contribute to the Boston Adult Literacy Fund.