Category: Inequality
Questions that should be put to the Minister
Michael Taft 27/07/2011
Michael Taft: The Cabinet has approved the interim Household Charge of €100, designed to ‘raise’ €160 million from 1.8 million households. …
All roads lead to Berlin
Michael Burke 25/07/2011
Michael Burke: The details of the latest EU Summit remain sketchy and on the surface overwhelmingly relate to Greece alone. The Agreement reached by …
The butler did it
Michael Taft 14/07/2011
Michael Taft: On Morning Ireland, Fergal O’Brien, economist from IBEC, stated: “Austerity is not killing the economy." Oh. We are treading into, …
Guest post by Colm O'Gorman: Linking human rights and economics
Colm O'Gorman 07/07/2011
Colm O'Gorman: We do not know where money allocated in the Irish budget goes. We do not know how effective it is, whether it gets to where it is …
Lessons from Brazil
Paul Sweeney 28/06/2011
Paul Sweeney: While the recession shows no sign of ending here, it is good to look abroad at other counties which had hard times and are doing well …
Unnatural selection
Paul Sweeney 15/06/2011
Paul Sweeney: In Tuesday's Financial Times there was a really provocative book reivew by Joshua Kurlantzick on a book by Mara Hvistendahl on the …
TASC launches new report on health inequalities
14/06/2011
Click here to download TASC's new report, Eliminating Health Inequalities - A Matter of Life and Death. A digital version is available here. Comments …
Cutting Human Rights
Tom McDonnell 14/06/2011
Tom McDonnell: It was good to see the Council of Europe's Human Rights Commissioner Thomas Hammerberg wade into the austerity debate (See Here). He …
Executive directors, other employees and pension inequality
Gerard Hughes 10/06/2011
Gerry Hughes: In 2007 employer contributions to occupational pension schemes on behalf of employees amounted to €1.4 billion and the estimated cost …
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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 …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …