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A better way
Michael Burke 04/11/2010
Michael Burke: As the population braces itself for another round of swingeing cuts, the government and the overwhelming majority of the media …
View from the front line: impacts of cuts to community employment
04/11/2010
Guest post by Dr Rory Hearne In an effort to highlight what are the potential real human and economic impacts of some of the proposed December budget …
ICTU's Pre-Budget submission
Paul Sweeney 03/11/2010
Paul Sweeney: Congress has warned that a continuation of the current austerity programme could literally destroy the Irish economy and kill off any …
Unemployment and paying for pensions
03/11/2010
Andrew Watt of the European Trade Union Institute - who spoke at the recent FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference - has an interesting take on jobs and …
INOU Pre-Budget Submission
03/11/2010
"Popular media debate would have us all believe that the crisis in the public finances arises because public expenditure went out of control. Did it? …
At least one party gets it
Michael Taft 02/11/2010
Michael Taft: With the political consensus obsessed with a €15 billion deflationary juggernaut, it’s a relief that one party gets it. Sinn …
Burn ALL the bank bondholders
Paul Sweeney 02/11/2010
Paul Sweeney: The Irish government’s cap-doffing attitude to the speculators who lent money to the reckless bosses of Anglo Irish Bank and the …
Dissenter from the Consensus
01/11/2010
Slí Eile. Even if one does not agree with everything he writes and comments on, for clarity and on this occasion complete accuracy and validity, …
Defending the Minimum Wage
Tom McDonnell 29/10/2010
Tom McDonnell: The minimum wage was attacked in the Dáil again this week. The substance of the argument was that it was killing competitiveness and …
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Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …