by Leah Langby | Jan 12, 2022 | Keeping Up With Kids
The Association for Library Service to Children’s Library Service to Underserved Children and Caregivers committee has created some practical toolkits, chock-full of resources for helping libraries serve everyone. Wow! Here’s a run-down of the current...
by Leah Langby | Jul 12, 2019 | Keeping Up With Kids
According to 2017 data from the Institute for Research on Poverty, Eau Claire and Chippewa Counties are two of the three counties in the state that have a higher rate of child poverty than the rest of the state. Yikes! What is happening? To learn more, I’m...
by Leah Langby | Oct 27, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Well, data is in that shows Wisconsin is still not doing so great in terms of making sure the children in our state have a fair shake at life–particularly children who are not white. The 2017 Race for Results report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation has...
by Leah Langby | May 12, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
Lack of money can cause tunnelingThis is the second in a series of posts about the book Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard) and Eldar Shafir (a psychology and public affairs...
by Leah Langby | May 10, 2017 | Keeping Up With Kids
If you’ve had a conversation with me in the past month or so, you’ve probably heard me talking about a book I finally just finished called Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan (an economics professor at Harvard)...
