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Category: Inequality

Education cutbacks bad for economy

Sinéad Pentony 04/08/2011

Sinéad Pentony: Today’s news that class sizes are set to increase highlights the shortsightedness of responses to the fiscal crisis. As in many …

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 …

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