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View from the front line: impacts of cuts to community employment
04/11/2010
Guest post by Dr Rory Hearne In an effort to highlight what are the potential real human and economic impacts of some of the proposed December budget …
ICTU's Pre-Budget submission
Paul Sweeney 03/11/2010
Paul Sweeney: Congress has warned that a continuation of the current austerity programme could literally destroy the Irish economy and kill off any …
Unemployment and paying for pensions
03/11/2010
Andrew Watt of the European Trade Union Institute - who spoke at the recent FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference - has an interesting take on jobs and …
INOU Pre-Budget Submission
03/11/2010
"Popular media debate would have us all believe that the crisis in the public finances arises because public expenditure went out of control. Did it? …
At least one party gets it
Michael Taft 02/11/2010
Michael Taft: With the political consensus obsessed with a €15 billion deflationary juggernaut, it’s a relief that one party gets it. Sinn …
Burn ALL the bank bondholders
Paul Sweeney 02/11/2010
Paul Sweeney: The Irish government’s cap-doffing attitude to the speculators who lent money to the reckless bosses of Anglo Irish Bank and the …
Dissenter from the Consensus
01/11/2010
Slí Eile. Even if one does not agree with everything he writes and comments on, for clarity and on this occasion complete accuracy and validity, …
Defending the Minimum Wage
Tom McDonnell 29/10/2010
Tom McDonnell: The minimum wage was attacked in the Dáil again this week. The substance of the argument was that it was killing competitiveness and …
Collateral Damage from the Bank Collapse
Nat O'Connor 29/10/2010
Nat O'Connor: The Irish Independent has published a table of major losers from the fall of AIB bank shares. This is merely illustrative of the damage …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …