A recent article by Paolo Mauro, Deputy Director of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, looks at putting moral perspectives into public finances. Mauro argues that policy decisions on taxation and…
The latest data from the CSO indicates that more than one third of people aged 20-69 do not have any pension support outside of State payments. With an increasing and ageing population, there are…
The latest Central Bank Economic Letter ‘Household Characteristics, Irish inflation and the cost of Living’ finds that lower income, rural and older households have faced a higher than average…
Social Protection Expenditure in Ireland increased by 20% between 2019 and 2020 according to the latest CSO data. Social protection expenditure was €58.2 billion in 2020, a rise of €9.8bn (20…
The OECD has recently released its Covid-19 Recovery Dashboard, a selection of twenty indicators that aims to monitor the recovery of OECD countries from the pandemic. Spread across four dimensions…
Those who were left behind in Budget 2022 have been left behind again in Government’s cost of living package. Government’s plan to tackle the rising cost of living proves, once again, that this…
Two practical ways to reduce the cost of living would be to benchmark core social welfare rates to 27.5 per cent of average weekly earnings and to make the two main tax credits refundable. …
The World Inequality Report 2022, released in December 2021 gives up to date insights into income and wealth distribution across the world. The report gathers together in one place data from all…
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) published an analysis of social welfare rate changes 2011-2022 in December 2021. The report looks at core social welfare rates over time, and rate changes…
Housing and Poverty 2022 is a special edition policy briefing issued by Social Justice Ireland. It aims to provide an update on the impact of housing costs (mortgage interest and rent) on…
