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
When Foster Youth Go to College: Assessing Barriers and Supports to Degree Completion for College Students with Foster Care Histories
- Nathanael J. Okpych and Mark E. Courtney
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - June 2023
 
Comparing Outcomes 20 Years Apart: Transitioning Out of Foster Care for Emerging Adults
- Thom Reilly and David Schlinkert
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - June 2023
 
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
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - November 2022
 
Court fees criminalize low-income defendants
- Devah Pager, Rebecca Goldstein, Helen Ho, and Bruce Western
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - November 2022
 
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
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - November 2022
 
Criminal justice as racialized resource extraction
- Joshua Page and Joe Soss
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - November 2022
 
Monetary sanctions and acquaintanceship density in rural court systems
- Gabriela Kirk, Kristina J. Thompson, Beth M. Huebner, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah K. S. Shannon
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - November 2022
 
The Stifling Stability of Deep Disadvantage
- Vincent A. Fusaro, H. Luke Shaefer, and Jasmine Simington
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - March 2022
 
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
 
Racial Disparities in Household Wealth Following the Great Recession
- Fenaba R. Addo and William A. Darity, Jr.
 - Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
 - March 2022