Sentence 1: Literacy rates are merely an index of education, which itself is another way of talking about a global move away from a hand-to-mouth lifestyle.

Sentence 2: Literacy rates are just an index of education which is a way of talking about a move from a hand-to-mouth lifestyle.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: yes

Sentence 1: But the chats are basic Q and A' Chatters ask routine questions, the candidate types back a canned response.

Sentence 2: The chats can be understood that by anyone with an education.
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer: it is not possible to tell

Sentence 1: The race was young when that was built, eh?"

Sentence 2: The race was in its infancy when that was constructed?
Is this second sentence entailed by the first?

Answer:
yes