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Category: Inequality

Alternatives to Current Austerity Policy

Nat O'Connor 30/01/2012

Nat O'Connor: A wide range of Irish and international economists and commentators were interviewed for an article in last Saturday's Irish Times, …

(V) Curbing growing income inequality

Paul Sweeney 27/01/2012

Paul Sweeney: No public servant is worth more than £1,000 a year. So said De Valera in 1931 (He paid himself more - £1,500 in March 1932 - but this …

(IV) The rise of the new aristocracy

Paul Sweeney 26/01/2012

Paul Sweeney: Mitt Romney’s pay of $42.5m – all unearned – in two years on which he paid an effective income tax rate of only 14.65 per cent …

Obama on Income Equality and Economic Recovery

Nat O'Connor 26/01/2012

Nat O'Connor: President Obama used his State of the Union address 2012 to highlight income inequality. His speech is only one of a number of examples …

(III) The squeezed middle

Paul Sweeney 25/01/2012

Paul Sweeney: There has been much discussion on what is called the Squeezed Middle. This refers to those middle class families who are seeing …

(II) The first generation to face lower living standards

Paul Sweeney 24/01/2012

Paul Sweeney: Ireland’s younger generations may be the first since the Post War period not to have higher incomes than those of their parents. The …

(I) What has happened to incomes since the crash?

Paul Sweeney 23/01/2012

Paul Sweeney: This is the first of five posts examining trends in living standards in the past, present and the likely future. As we explore the …

Jeff Madrick on how austerity is killing Europe

Jeff Madrick 11/01/2012

Jeff Madrick: When it was announced that Ireland's national income virtually collapsed in the fall of 20011, it should have been a death blow to …

A Roadmap to Greater Inequality: TASC response to Budget 2012

08/12/2011

TASC's response to Budget 2012, A Roadmap to Greater Inequality, is available for download here.

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