Spare a thought for Mary and Sean. Both work full-time - not great paying jobs but together they pull in 60K with overtime. They need it. They bought a house three years ago, paying over the odds, but with a one-year old child they had to leave their one-bed flat. Their second child came along [...]

If you have not been checking out Progressive Economy for comment on the An Bord Snip Nua report then here is a quick run through, starting with the most recent:
In her post journalist & author on health affairs Sara Burke asks if the government really wants to push more people on social welfare further and [...]

Over at Dublin Opinion, Conor McCabe is continuing his excellent analysis of contemporary class relations, this time using the CSO’s new National Employment Survey for 2007. He challenges the sloppy thinking that suggests we have a ‘middle-class’ majority, concluding that nearly two-thirds work in what can be properly called ‘working class’ occupations:
‘From the viewpoint of wages, [...]