A lesson from past experiences of economic recovery and growth is that the weakest in our society get left behind unless welfare increases keep track with increases elsewhere in the economy.…
Over the past seven years, Social Justice Ireland and other organisations have come together to form a technical group which researched and developed a Living Wage for Ireland. The latest…
The Government’s Stability Programme Update raises major challenges for Ireland on debt, infrastructure, taxation and services. A misplaced focus on the deficit and any return to…
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought enormous uncertainty to the Irish labour market and consequently to many families throughout the country. As this article outlines, the pandemic’s labour market…
When assessing the change in people’s incomes following any Budget, it is important that tax changes be included as well as changes to basic social welfare payments.
Following Budget 2021,…
New research from Canada indicates that adults who first experienced homelessness in childhood are more likely to experience precarious housing, even with Housing First Supports. This highlights…
The need for a wider tax base is a lesson painfully learnt by Ireland during the last economic crisis. A disastrous combination of a naïve housing policy, a failed regulatory system, and foolish…
Social Justice Ireland believes in the very important role that social welfare plays in addressing poverty. As part of the SILC results the CSO has provided an interesting…
The housing charity Threshold announced this week that upon reviewing the Residential Tenancies Board Q4 Rental Index[1], a minimum wage worker simply does not earn enough to rent in the private…
According to the latest data from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), there were just under 630,000 people still living in poverty in 2019, despite modest improvements in poverty rates. Of these…
