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
Results of the federal urban Empowerment Zone program
- Matias Busso, Jesse Gregory, and Patrick Kline
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - Spring/Summer 2013
 
Good jobs: The importance of who you work for
- David Card
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - Spring/Summer 2013
 
Waiting tables for a living: How employers and geography affect working conditions
- Anna Haley-Lock
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - Spring/Summer 2013
 
Focus & Focus+ 29(2), Fall/Winter 2012–2013
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
 
Introduction to the Issue, 29(2)
- Timothy M. Smeeding
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
 
Hard evidence on soft skills
- James J. Heckman
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
 
A Year Up
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
 
Year Up: Providing a pathway from poverty to a professional career for urban young adults
- Gerald Chertavian; Reaction by Carolyn Heinrich
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
 
How does Year Up measure up?
- Carolyn Heinrich
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013
 
Response from the author
- Gerald Chertavian
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - Fall/Winter (2012-2013) 2013