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 and Focus+ Icon](/wp//wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02-Institute-for-Research-on-Poverty-Icons-Focus-And-Focus-Plus.png)
Long harm of the law: Monetary sanctions and their symbiotic harms
- Daniel J. Boches, Brittany Martin, Andrea Giuffre, Amairini Sanchez, Aubrianne L. Sutherland, and Sarah K. S. Shannon
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- November 2022
![Focus and Focus+ Icon](/wp//wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02-Institute-for-Research-on-Poverty-Icons-Focus-And-Focus-Plus.png)
Criminal justice as racialized resource extraction
- Joshua Page and Joe Soss
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- November 2022
![Focus and Focus+ Icon](/wp//wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02-Institute-for-Research-on-Poverty-Icons-Focus-And-Focus-Plus.png)
Monetary sanctions and acquaintanceship density in rural court systems
- Gabriela Kirk, Kristina J. Thompson, Beth M. Huebner, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah K. S. Shannon
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- November 2022
![Focus and Focus+ Icon](/wp//wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02-Institute-for-Research-on-Poverty-Icons-Focus-And-Focus-Plus.png)
The Stifling Stability of Deep Disadvantage
- Vincent A. Fusaro, H. Luke Shaefer, and Jasmine Simington
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- March 2022
![Focus and Focus+ Icon](/wp//wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02-Institute-for-Research-on-Poverty-Icons-Focus-And-Focus-Plus.png)
Recession and Recovery Impacts on Foreign- and U.S.-Born Latinos in the United States
- Pia M. Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- March 2022
![Focus and Focus+ Icon](/wp//wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02-Institute-for-Research-on-Poverty-Icons-Focus-And-Focus-Plus.png)
Racial Disparities in Household Wealth Following the Great Recession
- Fenaba R. Addo and William A. Darity, Jr.
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- March 2022
![Focus and Focus+ Icon](/wp//wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02-Institute-for-Research-on-Poverty-Icons-Focus-And-Focus-Plus.png)
Economic Outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in the United States Following the Great Recession
- Randall Akee
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- March 2022
![Focus and Focus+ Icon](/wp//wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02-Institute-for-Research-on-Poverty-Icons-Focus-And-Focus-Plus.png)
Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 38(1), March 2022 – One Recession, Disparate Recoveries: Assessing Change and Stability Following the Great Recession
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- March 2022
![Focus and Focus+ Icon](/wp//wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02-Institute-for-Research-on-Poverty-Icons-Focus-And-Focus-Plus.png)
Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 37(2), September 2021 Preventing child maltreatment and neglect in the United States: Opportunities for change
- Edited by James T. Spartz and Judith Siers-Poisson
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2021
![Focus and Focus+ Icon](/wp//wp-content/uploads/2018/03/02-Institute-for-Research-on-Poverty-Icons-Focus-And-Focus-Plus.png)
Documenting experiences and interactions with Child Protective Services
- Darcey H. Merritt
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2021