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Economic Inequality: Frequently Asked Questions
Cormac Staunton 27/03/2015
Cormac Staunton: Since launching our report Cherishing All Equally: Economic Inequality in Ireland we have received a number of questions from a wide …
Franklin D Roosevelt's 1935 Message to Congress on Tax Revision
Nat O'Connor 24/03/2015
Nat O'Connor: What follows are excerpts from Franklin D Roosevelt, President of the USA (1933-1945), Message to Congress on Tax Revision, 19 June …
The Top Income Tax is at its Lowest Rate
Paul Sweeney 23/03/2015
Paul Sweeney: This year, Ireland’s top tax is at its lowest rate for many years. Yet inequality is now recognised as the biggest economic challenge …
Incarceration and Equality
18/03/2015
Oisín Gilmore: Last month the Oscars got some press attention for the unusually politicized nature of many of the acceptance speeches. While …
Data on Wealth in Ireland
Paul Sweeney 13/03/2015
Paul Sweeney: There has been no study of the distribution of wealth in Ireland by any government body until recently. Now the CSO has undertaken such …
Arguments for a gendered investment plan
Paula Clancy 09/03/2015
Paula Clancy: As a consequence of austerity policies the programme for gender equality in Ireland has been hard hit. Ursula Barry’s recent TASC …
Don’t sell, buy: Paul Sweeney on Aer Lingus in Irish Times
09/03/2015
Paul Sweeney, Chair of TASC's Economists' Network, wrote a strong opinion piece on Aer Lingus in The Irish Times on Friday, 6th of March 2015. You …
Mathematically Progressive or Socially Progressive?
Cormac Staunton 06/03/2015
Cormac Staunton: You don’t measure how peaceful an area is by counting the number of peacekeepers. If anything, the presence of peacekeepers is an …
Aer Lingus Watch #5
Paul Sweeney 25/02/2015
Paul Sweeney: I began Aer Lingus Watch 3 by saying that the government will not sell its stake in Aer Lingus. The Taoiseach had said that he wanted …
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Vic Duggan
Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …