Why did I think the Ernst & Young forecasts wouldn’t make big news? Did I really imagine that its key projections on the deficit and employment would provide a sobering counter-point to all the ‘whistling past the economic graveyard’ commentary we get everyday. Yet, the analysis is worth poring over in detail, not because E&Y [...]

Details on the Youth Unemployment Conference Hosted by Ógra Shinn Féin

When? 11am, Saturday the 5th of June

Where? The Teachers Club, Parnell Square, Dublin

What?
Ógra Shinn Féin has announced the final clár of their forthcoming National Youth Unemployment Conference, to be held in the Teachers Club in Dublin on Saturday the 5th of June  11am.

First, the good news. The rise in unemployment is contracting. From a monthly high of 36,500 new people on the Live Register, the rise last month was a mere 4,300. Okay, still far too high but if unemployment is ever to be reversed it must first be slowed down. And slowing down it is. That’s [...]

Last month, Seán O’Riain wrote a post for progressive economy, which used the Quarterly Household Survey (Q1 2009 ) to throw some light on the class aspects of the recent rise in unemployment in Ireland.
the major trend that stands out is the disastrous collapse in working class employment with growing differences between the position of [...]

Higher and higher - that’s the way unemployment is going. Strange this is not getting the attention it deserves. While the media debates the fiscal meltdown, the ‘will-they-or-won’t they’ cut public sector wages (or just freeze them ad infinitum), a blood-letting is beginning in the labour force. Maybe it’s just that we [...]