Is Education Still an Issue?

My nephew sent me some statistics about the number of adults in the US who buy and read books. The data is quoted by Para Publishing, who is quoting Jerrold Jenkins:

--58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school.
--42% of college graduates never read another book.
--80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.
--70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
--57% of new books are not read to completion.
--the average person stops reading a book on page 18.

I find these statistics unconscionable for residents of the so-called "greatest country in the world." Reading helps develop vocabulary, language and writing skills; it opens doors to times and places that we are unable to visit personally; it opens our minds to new ideas; it engages the brain to visualize people and places. If we are not reading, we are an uneducated nation!

We know that equity is still an issue; it appears that education is an issue as well. What are we going to do about it?????