Incomes of the low paid must be protected
Speaking in response to the ESRI Quarterly Economic Commentary, Anne Costello of the Community Platform stated, ‘we agree with broadening the tax base but strongly reject suggestions that this should mean bringing the low paid into the income tax net.’
Ms Costello went on to state, ‘the Community Platform [...]

The number of Ireland’s rich, measured as those having investable assets of $1 million or more, rose by over 10 % last year. To top it off ‘Ireland is perceived to be ahead of the game’, because apparently, our efforts to rein in the public finances have paid off for the Irish economy. This is [...]

On the 17th of June last Professor Kathleen Lynch, Professor of Equality Studies at the School of Social Justice at UCD, gave the 2010 TASC Annual Lecture at the Royal Irish Academy. It was called From a Neo-Liberal to an Egalitarian State: Imagining a different Future and it provides not only an excellent analysis of [...]

To a large extent, the reality of global inequality is ignored or at best downplayed. However, this has not always been the case. Indeed, in the early 1950s, the first UN resolutions on development focused on inequality rather than poverty. Unfortunately, this decline of interest in inequality is not an indication of any improvement in [...]

Today, ICTU and TASC published the Hierarchy of Earnings, Attributes and Privilege report (PDF) or H.E. A.P report, authored by Professor Terrence McDonough of The Dept of Economics, NUI Galway, (see recent ILR podcast interview) and Jason Loughrey. You can find  the full press release below. The full report deserves to be studied in detail [...]

Wednesday’s Social Inclusion Forum Is A Rare Chance for Government to Hear the Voices of People Experiencing Poverty and Social Exclusion
Speaking in advance of the Social Inclusion Forum on Wednesday 4th November, Anna Visser Director of the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland, welcomed the Government efforts to actively seek out the views of people experiencing poverty [...]

The European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland, in association with the October 17 UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty Campaign, will hold a lunchtime seminar on Monday October 12th 2009 on building support in the media and amongst the general public for tackling poverty, social exclusion and inequality. The seminar will be held in Assembly Room, [...]