America's current adult education and workforce skills training programs were designed for a different time and different challenges. They must be fundamentally transformed to meet the nation's pressing 21st Century adult education and workforce needs. The National Commission on Adult Literacy calls for a new "Adult Education and Workforce Skills System" with the capacity to serve effectively and efficiently "20 million adults annually by the year 2020." The mission of this new System is to move out-of-school adults "to readiness for postsecondary education and job training." The new System would be funded by "public expenditures of $20 billion by 2020"--a fourfold increase over current public adult education and workforce training expenditures of Titles I and II of the Workforce Investment Act. Additional funding is needed from private philanthropy and corporations. The public expenditure to support this system will be more than offset by fiscal gains to local, state, and federal government. [For the full report, see ED506605.]