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August 24, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS

Teens, Hunger and Poverty: An ongoing discussion

August 24, 2015 by Karen Jensen, MLS   Leave a Comment

As students head back to school it’s important for us to remember that ” nearly half of the nation’s children between the ages of 5 and 17 attend schools in communities where a large chunk of families are struggling to get by” (Source: Huffington Post).  One of our ongoing issues of focus is that of teens and poverty. Here are a selection of posts what we have already done below, and we will be doing more because we here at TLT feel like this is one of the greatest issues facing our teens today.

    • Can We All Just Stop Saying the Internet Is Free Now Please?
    • Rich Teen, Poor Teen: Books that depict teens living in poverty
    • Working with youth who live in poverty
    • Sunday Reflections: This is what losing everything looks like
    • Sunday Reflections: Going to bed hungry
    • Sunday Reflections: A tale of two libraries
    • Sunday Reflections: Are schools disriminating against the poor?
    • Sunday Reflections: Poverty doesn’t always look the way you think it does
    • Sunday Reflections: All I Want for Christmas is the Chance to Go to College
    • Feeding Teens at the Library: Summer and Afterschool Meals
    • The Economy as Villain in The Year of Shadows by Claire LeGrand
    • Book Review: PANIC by Lauren Oliver
    • Book Review: HUNGRY by H. A. Swain
    • Not All Educations Are Created Equal
    • Teens and Poverty: PBS Newshour Discusses Being Homeless and Trying to Graduate High School
    • Sunday Reflections: Dasani, Poverty, and Education (by Robin)
    • Sunday Reflections: Torchwood Children of Earth, a reflection on how we think about children in poverty among us
    • Teens and Poverty: An updated book list
    • Teen Homelessness and NO PARKING AT THE END TIME by Bryan Bliss
    • Impoverished Youth: Over Half of Public School Students Now Live in Low Income Homes
    • Sunday Reflections: Becoming a Statistic
    • Boom, Crash, the Sound of the Economy
    • You Are Now Approved to Read, Poverty in MORE HAPPY THAN NOT by Adam Silvera

See also Stacked: Socioeconomic Class in Contemporary YA Lit: Where Are The Poor Teens? Guest Post by Librarian Faythe Arrendondo and Kate Brauning: Writing Poverty in YA

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About Karen Jensen, MLS

Karen Jensen has been a Teen Services Librarian for almost 30 years. She created TLT in 2011 and is the co-editor of The Whole Library Handbook: Teen Services with Heather Booth (ALA Editions, 2014).

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