Category: Welfare
A fair budget for today's pensioners ?
Rosheen Callender 16/10/2020
Today's pensioners were reasonably well served by Budget 2021. But what about tomorrow's pensioners? Urgent and radical planning and action is needed to prevent future poverty and increasing income inequality. Some pensioners may have felt disappointed that Budget 2021 failed to increase the State Pension, but will have welcomed the …
'Tossed to the wind'?
27/07/2020
-The report 'Tossed to the wind'? The Pandemic Unemployment Payment and the reshaping of the Welfare State and this blog summary was written by …
Think Tanks Should Put 'Public' Back in Policy
Shana Cohen 23/08/2018
According to the University of Pennsylvania’s Think Tanks and Civil Society Program, “think tanks are public policy research, analysis, and …
Living wage
Robert Sweeney 17/07/2018
LAST WEEK THE Living Wage Technical Group published an update of the living wage in Ireland. The living wage calculates the wage needed to live a …
Male breadwinner activation, wifely labour and the Irish patriarchy
Mary Murphy 23/05/2018
Writing in the week of the referendum to repeal the 8thReferendum, the cervical check debacle and the shocking violent deaths of two women it …
GDP and its alternatives
Robert Sweeney 04/04/2018
Perhaps no other single number or indicator receives as much attention as the total output of an economy. The standard measure for this is gross …
Raising employment
Robert Sweeney 16/03/2018
The issue of pay and employment props up occasionally in public discourse but rarely receives the attention it merits. With international women’s …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …