Social Justice Ireland welcomes the publication by The World Bank of a report on Basic Income schemes in 28 Sub-Saharan countries. Entitled …
Seán Healy, Director of Social Justice Ireland recently contributed a piece to the Sunday Business Post on the need for accurate social analysis to underpin Government policy decisions.…
For the second year in a row this Government introduced a Budget that was deeply regressive, both socially and…
The European Commission has proposed an action plan to tackle the issues of corporate tax evasion and fraud in the EU. Such evasion and fraud by major companies are believed to cost European…
The current approach to resolving Ireland’s series of crises is not working.
This situation has been exacerbated by the Government’s protection of the rich at the…
Return to work patterns are often a function of more than financial rewards and include such considerations as work availability, family commitments, travel to work time and the type of available…
The OECD has said that Ireland would benefit from alleviation in the government debt-servicing burden arising from its retroactive recapitalisation for Irish banks by the European Stability…
The Government’s new child poverty target could be reached while child poverty continues to grow!
No target set to reduce the numbers of ‘working poor’ - means major group continues…
There are 920m people in the Global South living on less than $1.25 a day. In a world with resources many times what is required to eliminate global poverty this situation is intolerable according…
CAFOD, the UK development aid organisation, has warned that the World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ rankings are actively harming the poor. This is a further example of a tendency in international…
