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 low-income noncustodial fathers “trade” earlier families for newer ones?
- Lawrence M. Berger, Maria Cancian, Angela Guarin, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- July 2019

A history of residential segregation in the United States
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- March 2019

Focus & Focus+ 34(4), March 2019
Racial Residential Segregation
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- March 2019

Segregation and subprime lending within and across metropolitan areas
- Jackelyn Hwang, Michael Hankinson, and Kreg Steven Brown
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- March 2019

Focus & Focus+ 34(3), December 2018
Rural Poverty, Part 2
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2018

Rural-urban disparity in poverty persistence
- Iryna Kyzyma
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2018

Child poverty in rural America
- David Rothwell and Brian C. Thiede
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2018

Moving into and out of rural poverty
- José D. Pacas and Elizabeth E. Davis
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2018

Focus & Focus+ 34(2), October 2018
Rural Poverty, Part 1
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- October 2018

Are rural Americans still behind?
- James P. Ziliak
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- October 2018