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
Economic Outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in the United States Following the Great Recession
- Randall Akee
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- March 2022
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 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
Documenting experiences and interactions with Child Protective Services
- Darcey H. Merritt
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2021
Scanning the child maltreatment landscape
- Brenda Jones Harden, Cassandra Simons, Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, and Richard P. Barth
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2021
Creating systems synergy across the social welfare policy landscape
- Megan Feely, Kerri M. Raissian, William Schneider, and Lindsey Rose Bullinger
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2021
Modernizing the Unemployment Insurance System to Better Respond to Economic Downturns
- Till von Wachter
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
Options to Improve the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
Reforming housing assistance to better respond to recipient needs
- Robert Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Jens Ludwig
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 37(1), June 2021
Assessing the Responsiveness of the U.S. Safety Net to the COVID-19 Economic Crisis
- Edited by Emma Caspar, Judith Siers-Poisson, and James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021