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

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Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 38(2), November 2022: Monetary Sanctions and the Criminal Legal System: Punishment and Revenue

  • Edited by James T. Spartz with additional support from Judith Siers-Poisson
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  • November 2022
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Criminal justice as racialized resource extraction

  • Joshua Page and Joe Soss
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  • November 2022
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Monetary sanctions and acquaintanceship density in rural court systems

  • Gabriela Kirk, Kristina J. Thompson, Beth M. Huebner, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah K. S. Shannon
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  • November 2022
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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
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  • November 2022
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Court fees criminalize low-income defendants

  • Devah Pager, Rebecca Goldstein, Helen Ho, and Bruce Western
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • November 2022
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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
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  • March 2022
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The Stifling Stability of Deep Disadvantage

  • Vincent A. Fusaro, H. Luke Shaefer, and Jasmine Simington
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  • March 2022
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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
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Racial Disparities in Household Wealth Following the Great Recession

  • Fenaba R. Addo and William A. Darity, Jr.
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • March 2022
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Economic Outcomes for Indigenous Peoples in the United States Following the Great Recession

  • Randall Akee
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • March 2022