The other thing that comes up fairly regularly in our hearings is the question of literacy. I note from the estimates that spending on literacy will go down $1.3 million from 2009-10 to 2010-11, and then it's going to go down again in 2011-12. Literacy is another of those core issues that we need to look at and do something with if we're going to lift people out of poverty, and yet the funding is going down.
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