How can we improve someones

odds of success?
Created by: Naima Cooper, Hasan Armour, Jalil Lipscomb, and Zion McGee

The Great Equalizer

Have you ever wondered why some people are more
successful than others? Well, a large determining
factor for a persons success rate is their education
level. Education is the great equalizer. The higher the
level of education, the higher the income generally.
Ok, we know this now, but what is the reason that
some people are less educated than others? The
number one predictor of long term success is reading
level. Students who cant read by 3rd grade are four
times less likely to graduate by age 19 than a child
who does read at that age. Access to books is key to
reading skills, but the price of books is the #1 barrier
to book ownership. Our solution to this problem is to
place Little Free Libraries (LFLs) in low income
neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia.

Free Sources of Books inside of I285

LFLs
Public Libraries
Gap in free
books

U.S. Penitentiary

Sparks, S. D. (n.d.). Study: Third Grade Reading Predicts Later High School Graduation.
Neuman, S. B. (n.d.). First Book Statistics: Literacy in America

South Atlanta

Low Income Areas Inside I285

Our library will be placed in South Atlanta because our
research shows that the South Atlanta area is a low
income area, there is already a gap in free sources of
books in this area, and the United States Penitentiary is
located very close to South Atlanta which could be a
contributing factor to the low income and lack of free
books.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Georgia_Median_Income_by_County.png

This map displays all of the free sources of books within 285. The red
markers signify all public libraries in the area and the blue markers
signify all of the little free libraries in the area. The areas highlighted
in yellow signify the areas with a shortage of free books. The yellow
around South Atlanta is the largest gap in our data, therefore, we will
place our library in a neighborhood in this area.
http://www.afpls.org/locations/locations2