Category: Inequality
Non-mortgage debt and financial wellbeing of Irish households
Amie Lajoie 13/04/2020
Ireland has the fifth highest rate of personal indebtedness in Europe, and living with debt is a daily reality for over half of all Irish …
Low Pay in the Time of Covid-19
Robert Sweeney 06/04/2020
If there are any silver linings to the Corona Virus, one of them is that it has brought into focus how reliant we are on low-paid workers. As 23% of …
Thomas Piketty’s New Book
Jean Pisani-Ferry 19/11/2019
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century blended history, statistics, and theory. Capital and Ideology his new magnum opus, is long …
Inequality in Ireland today
Robert Sweeney 04/07/2019
In previous blogs I discussed the nature of inequality in Ireland today. I noted that Ireland i) ranks in the middle among EU countries ii) has …
Climate action plan is nothing if it fails to address inequality
Sean McCabe 24/06/2019
- Appeared in the Irish Times, June 24, 2019. The 2019 climate action plan, taken at face value, aims to catapult Ireland from laggard to leader on …
Zero hours work
Michelle O'Sullivan 16/04/2019
There has much attention on zero hours work in Ireland in recent years. Former Labour Party Minister of State for Business and Employment Ged Nash …
Inequality in Ireland today
Robert Sweeney 11/02/2019
A previous blog looked at the broad contours of inequality in Ireland today. What we found was that (i) inequality has grown here (ii) Ireland now …
Inequality in Ireland today
Robert Sweeney 16/01/2019
With continuing housing crises, health crises, inadequate childcare, climate change inaction, there’s no shortage of public policy emergencies …
A divided state
Paula Clancy 02/01/2019
Dr. Paula Clancy is founding director of the independent, progressive Think Tank TASC (Think Tank for Action on Social Change) which she helped set …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Jim Stewart
Dr Jim Stewart is Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …