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
Interactions between human services programs and the opioid crisis: Early childhood care
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- February 2020
Interactions between human services programs and the opioid crisis: Self-sufficiency supports
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- February 2020
Understanding the effects of the U.S. prison boom on rural communities
- John M. Eason
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- November 2019
Poverty, criminal justice, and social justice
- Bruce Western
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- November 2019
Focus & Focus+ 35(3), November 2019
Mass incarceration and prison proliferation in the United States
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- November 2019
Policy approaches to reducing poverty and deep poverty among children
- Hilary Hoynes, Robert Moffitt, and Timothy Smeeding
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2019
Adjusting estimates of poverty reduction for behavioral effects
- Hilary Hoynes and Robert Moffitt
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2019
Measuring child poverty in the United States
- Hilary Hoynes, Robert Moffitt, and Timothy Smeeding
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2019
Focus & Focus+ 35(2), September 2019
A roadmap to reducing child poverty
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2019
Focus & Focus+ 35(1), July 2019
Designing more effective child support policies
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- July 2019