Jeb Bush Announces $7M Adult Literacy XPRIZE | Jeb Bush

My mom for 25-plus years has been involved in the family literacy movement

and this is a exponentially bigger

possibility. Thousands of families have benefited from

great generosity of people giving money to the foundation to help

families learn how to read. And this has the potential

of helping millions. There are 36 million people more or less

that are functionally illiterate adults in our country. Imagine that

I mean, that's a huge number of people who won't be able to fulfill

their own life's purpose. The gateway

to be able to live a life of purpose is to read.

If you can read you can lear. If you can learn, you're not gonna be able to make it

in the 21st century. Harnessing the great innovative capabilities of the

XPRIZE, I think is really exciting. The Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE

presented by the Dollar General Literacy Foundation

innovators from around the world to develop mobile applications

increasing literacy skills over a

There's a huge need, and I view most of the problems as opportunities

so reverse it and think about what it would be

if you had 36 million

adults that could be functionally literate, not functionally illiterate

That's what the benefit of this is. This is a huge drag on our productivity is a

But if you reversed it, it would be a burst of

We don't care where you went to school. We don't care

if you have 20 years experience or

As long as you solve this problem, you win. I was watching a video