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 & Focus+ 34(2), October 2018
Rural Poverty, Part 1
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- October 2018

Are rural Americans still behind?
- James P. Ziliak
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- October 2018

Fifty years after The People Left Behind: The unfinished challenge of reducing rural poverty
- Bruce Weber
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- October 2018

Focus & Focus+ 34(1), Spring 2018
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2018

Paid parental leave in the United States
- Emma Caspar
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2018

How do parental welfare work requirements affect children?
- Chris M. Herbst
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2018

How do paid leave and TANF generosity affect welfare participation and material hardship around a birth?
- Marci Ybarra, Alexandra B. Stanczyk, and Yoonsook Ha
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2018

Focus & Focus+ 33(3), Special Issue 2017
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Special Issue 2017

Antipoverty policy initiatives for the United States
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Special Issue 2017

Making a difference over 50 years
- Rebecca M. Blank
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Special Issue 2017