A new report just published by the Department of Social Protection Social Inclusion Division has found that 450,000 people in Ireland (10% of the population) were in food poverty in 2010.
The findings of the CSO study on child poverty published September 6, 2012, are a scandal. In Ireland: More than 200,000 children now living in poverty as new study shows almost one in five households with children living in poverty. More than one in four children aged between 12 and 17 are now at risk of poverty. Income of households with children is far worse hit than households without children.
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Basic Income would help reduce inequality and poverty Inequality and poverty must be addressed effectively and soon if the current growing polarisation process being exper
The Government has just published the National Reform Programme 2012 Update for Ireland which contains, amongst other information a revised poverty target under Ireland’s commitments to the Europe
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