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

Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 37(2), September 2021 Preventing child maltreatment and neglect in the United States: Opportunities for change
- Edited by James T. Spartz and Judith Siers-Poisson
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2021

Documenting experiences and interactions with Child Protective Services
- Darcey H. Merritt
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2021

Scanning the child maltreatment landscape
- Brenda Jones Harden, Cassandra Simons, Michelle Johnson-Motoyama, and Richard P. Barth
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2021

Creating systems synergy across the social welfare policy landscape
- Megan Feely, Kerri M. Raissian, William Schneider, and Lindsey Rose Bullinger
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2021

Modernizing the Unemployment Insurance System to Better Respond to Economic Downturns
- Till von Wachter
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021

Options to Improve the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021

Reforming housing assistance to better respond to recipient needs
- Robert Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Jens Ludwig
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021

Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 37(1), June 2021
Assessing the Responsiveness of the U.S. Safety Net to the COVID-19 Economic Crisis
- Edited by Emma Caspar, Judith Siers-Poisson, and James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021

Crime-free housing ordinances and eviction
- Kathryn Ramsey Mason
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2020

Focus & Focus+ 36(4), December 2020
Systemic racism and the justice system
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2020