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National Income and Expenditure 2011
Michael Burke 05/09/2012
Michael Burke: The argument in favour of ‘austerity’ measures is that the overriding objective of policy must be to reduce the government deficit, that this must be done by cutting spending and that there is no alternative to current policies. The release of the latest Irish National Income and Expenditure for 2011 should serve to dispel the …
(V) Curbing growing income inequality
Paul Sweeney 27/01/2012
Paul Sweeney: No public servant is worth more than £1,000 a year. So said De Valera in 1931 (He paid himself more - £1,500 in March 1932 - but this …
(IV) The rise of the new aristocracy
Paul Sweeney 26/01/2012
Paul Sweeney: Mitt Romney’s pay of $42.5m – all unearned – in two years on which he paid an effective income tax rate of only 14.65 per cent …
Draft heads of Personal Insolvency Bill out today- at long last!
Marie Sherlock 25/01/2012
Marie Sherlock: The long awaited heads of the Draft Personal Insolvency Bill was published today and at first glance, there is much to welcome. For …
(III) The squeezed middle
Paul Sweeney 25/01/2012
Paul Sweeney: There has been much discussion on what is called the Squeezed Middle. This refers to those middle class families who are seeing …
(II) The first generation to face lower living standards
Paul Sweeney 24/01/2012
Paul Sweeney: Ireland’s younger generations may be the first since the Post War period not to have higher incomes than those of their parents. The …
(I) What has happened to incomes since the crash?
Paul Sweeney 23/01/2012
Paul Sweeney: This is the first of five posts examining trends in living standards in the past, present and the likely future. As we explore the …
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Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …
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Dr Jim Stewart is Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin. His research …
Shana Cohen
Dr. Shana Cohen is the Director of TASC. She studied at Princeton University and at the …