Fast Focus Policy Brief
Fast Focus is a policy brief designed for busy policymakers and practitioners who want a concise summary of a research study or policy innovation in straightforward language. Some Fast Focus briefs translate a single research study. Others synthesize broader research and policy themes and developments from IRP meetings, publications, and events.
Resources
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Living on the Periphery: Poor Urban Men
- Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- January 2016
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Incarceration and CPS involvement
- Lawrence M. Berger, Maria Cancian, Laura Cuesta, and Jennifer L. Noyes
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- August 2016
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The Basics of SNAP Food Assistance
- Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- November 2015
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SNAP Trends and Antipoverty Impacts
- Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- November 2015
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SNAP, Food Security, and Health
- Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- November 2015
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SNAP and the Low-Income Safety Net
- Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- November 2015
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Reducing Health Disparities by Poverty Status
- Barbara Wolfe
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- October 2015
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Does Foster Care Lower School Achievement?
- Lawrence Berger, Maria Cancian, Jennifer Noyes, and Vanessa Rios-Salas
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- October 2015
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Unaffordable America: Poverty, housing, and eviction
- Matthew Desmond
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- March 2015
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Building human capital and economic potential
- Carolyn J. Heinrich and Timothy M. Smeeding
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2014