Fast Focus Policy Brief

Fast Focus is a policy brief designed for busy policymakers and practitioners who want a concise summary of a research study or policy innovation in straightforward language. Some Fast Focus briefs translate a single research study. Others synthesize broader research and policy themes and developments from IRP meetings, publications, and events.

Resources

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Work and well-being among low-income men

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • November 2017
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Deep poverty in the United States

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • October 2017
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Childhood obesity

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • September 2017
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Financial causes and consequences of child maltreatment

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • May 2017
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TANF turns 20

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • March 2017
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Selected state strategies to help foster children succeed

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • December 2016
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Deepening connections between neuroscience and public policy to understand poverty

  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • June 2016
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Living on the Periphery: Poor Urban Men

  • Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • January 2016
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Incarceration and CPS involvement

  • Lawrence M. Berger, Maria Cancian, Laura Cuesta, and Jennifer L. Noyes
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • August  2016
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The Basics of SNAP Food Assistance

  • Judith Bartfeld, Craig Gundersen, Timothy Smeeding, and James Ziliak
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • November 2015