Ireland ranks 8th out of 14 comparable EU countries in this year’s Sustainable Progress Index, commissioned by Social Justice Ireland. The report entitled ‘Measuring Progress:…
Social Justice Ireland has challenged the Commission on Taxation and Welfare’s recommendation to reject Universal Basic Income. The analysis underpinning this recommendation, contains…
The OECD launched its new Observatory on Social Mobility and Equal Opportunity late last year (2022), providing insights into social disadvantage, its causes and consequences as well as how to tackle…
The Programme for Government acknowledged that our “existing measures of economic performance fail to measure matters such as damage to the environment and voluntary work. They also overlook equality…
The Programme for Government 2020 commitment to the development of a well-being framework has been delivered on with the Second Report on Ireland’s Well-being Framework published in June 2022. As…
How is Ireland doing? In a country that still is unable to provide secure affordable housing, timely access to healthcare, support children with extra educational needs and has almost 595,000 people…
On Wednesday, 16th November 2022, Social Justice Ireland held our Annual Social Policy Conference. This year's Conference was on the theme 'Towards Wellbeing for All'. We posed the…
The success or failure of an economy is traditionally measured in terms of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) which calculates the value of all goods and services produced by a country or Gross National…
