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
Do unconditional income supplements improve poor pregnant women’s birth outcomes?
- Marni D. Brownell, Mariette J. Chartier, and Nathan C. Nickel
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2016–2017) 2016
Poor families, housing, and health
- Diana Hernández
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2016–2017) 2016
Focus & Focus+ 32(2), Fall/Winter 2015–2016
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2015–2016) 2016
Crime, punishment, and American inequality
- Christopher Uggen
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2015–2016) 2016
How does incarceration affect where people live after prison, and does it vary by race?
- Michael Massoglia, Glenn Firebaugh, and Cody Warner
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2015–2016) 2016
Children’s contact with incarcerated parents
- Julie Poehlmann-Tynan
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2015–2016) 2016
How does paternal incarceration affect children’s cognitive and noncognitive development?
- Anna R. Haskins
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2015–2016) 2016
If dad is in prison, will his children end up in foster care?
- Signe Hald Andersen and Christopher Wildeman
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2015–2016) 2016
Using a public health approach to address the incarceration crisis
- Madeleine Solan and Charles J. Homer
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2015–2016) 2016
Focus & Focus+ 32(1), Spring/Summer 2015
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2015