Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
Focus on Poverty, IRP’s flagship online publication, includes brief essays summarizing current poverty and policy research for non-researchers. The collection is prepared for educators, policymakers, policy analysts, and state and federal officials. Each issue is accompanied by Focus on Poverty Classroom Supplement, a college classroom resource, which includes additional information and web links on the topics covered in Focus on Poverty.
Resources
Focus on Poverty, 40(2), December 2025: Guaranteed Income Programs in the United States
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2025
Unconditional Monthly Income Supplements at Birth
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2025
Effects of Unconditional Child Tax Credit Transfers on Parents’ Mental Health
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2025
Q & A with Lucius Couloute
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2025
Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 40(1), September 2024: Housing Precarity: When Renters Struggle to Find and Keep a Home
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2024
Housing Voucher Lease-Up Rates
- Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, and Sarah Strochak
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2024
Eviction, Gentrification, and Renter Displacement
- Peter Hepburn, Renee Louis, and Matthew Desmond
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2024
Housing-Cost Burden Among U.S. Renters
- Gregg Colburn, Christian Hess, Ryan Allen, and Kyle Crowder
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2024
Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 39(2), January 2024: Early Childhood Care and Education: A Patchwork of Policy and Practice
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- January 2024
Maternal Employment Drops when Child Care is Expensive and Hard to Find
- Liana Christin Landivar, William J. Scarborough, Caitlyn Collins, and Leah Ruppanner
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- January 2024