IRP translates and disseminates poverty research through a variety of products prepared for a range of audiences.
Research Areas
- Economic Support
- Employment
- Employment General
- Financial Security
- Food & Nutrition
- Food Insecurity
- Inequality & Mobility
- Racial/Ethnic Inequality
- Education & Training
- Housing
- Housing Market
- K-12 Education
- Labor Market
- Low-Wage Work
- Place
- Place General
- Children
- Children General
- Family & Partnering
- Incarcerated Parents
- Justice System
- Justice System General
- Parenting
- Poverty Measurement
- U.S. Poverty Measures
- Wealth
- Housing General
- Health
- Health Care
- Early Childhood Care & Education
- Child Poverty
- Food Assistance
- Housing Assistance
- Means-Tested Programs
- Child Development & Well-Being
- Family & Partnering General
- Inequality & Mobility General
- Child Support
- Child Support Policy Research
- Enforcement
- Orders & Payments
- Unemployment/Nonemployment
- WI Administrative Data Core
- Homelessness
- Employment Opportunity
- Immigration
- Job Training
- Postsecondary Education
- Social Insurance Programs
- Transition to Adulthood
- Health General
- State & Local Measures
- Family Structure
- Social Determinants of Health
- Mental Health & Substance Abuse
- Custody & Placement
- Guidelines
- Intergenerational Poverty
- Incarceration
- Prisoner Reentry
- Economic Support General
- Arrears & Related Policy
- Child Maltreatment & Child Welfare System
- Poverty Measurement General
- Juvenile Justice
- Education & Training General
- Policing
- Eviction & Foreclosure
- Pass-Through & Disregard
- Court System
- Neighborhood Effects
- Gender Inequality
- Transition to Adulthood Network
- Related Social Policies
- Family Income
- Food & Nutrition General
- Fines & Fees
- Retirement
- Paternity Establishment
- CSDE
- Spatial Mismatch
- Complicated Families & Multiple-Partner Fertility
- CSPED
- Multiple-Partner Fertility
- Wisconsin Poverty Reports
- Health Policy
- Training
- Undergrad
- Obesity
- CSDE Report
Rourke O’Brien on the Impact of Spending by Different Levels of Government
- Rourke O’Brien
- Podcasts
- December 09 2025
Focus on Poverty, 40(2), December 2025: Guaranteed Income Programs in the United States
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2025
Engaging and Serving Young Fathers
- Tova Walsh, Raheem Brooks, Angie Haney, Justin Harty, and Avery Hennigar
- Webinar
- November 19 2025
Luke Shaefer on the RX Kids Cash Transfer Program
- Luke Shaefer
- Podcasts
- November 11 2025
The Use of Child Support Guidelines in Wisconsin: 2017–2020
- Judith Bartfeld, Megan Doherty Bea, and Jungjin Koo
- Report
- November 2025
Unconditional Monthly Income Supplements at Birth
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2025
Effects of Unconditional Child Tax Credit Transfers on Parents’ Mental Health
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2025
Q & A with Lucius Couloute
- Edited by James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2025
Implications of Consumer Debt for Families Served by Child Support
- Trisha Chanda, Maria Cancian, and Lawrence M. Berger
- Report
- November 2025
The Student Loan Crisis: Policy, Burden, and Borrower Well-Being
- Fenaba R. Addo, Dominique J. Baker, Daniel A. Collier
- Webinar
- October 29 2025