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Austerity kills according to latest research

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Austerity is not just bad for the economy. The latest evidence shows that it is also bad for people’s health. 

Austerity has led to rising suicide rates, increased rates of disease and…

Austerity is discredited, its credibility undermined, its moral basis unethical. Ireland must change direction

Monday, 29 April 2013

Both the academic and moral basis for ‘austerity’ have been discredited and its credibility has been undermined. 

The ‘austerity’ approach being implemented in Ireland is…

Academic case for austerity shown to have been deeply flawed – Change of direction the only credible response from policy-makers

Sunday, 21 April 2013

This is an extraordinary story. The key academic study used to justify austerity in recent years in countries such as Ireland has been exposed as profoundly flawed.

The authors of the study…

Rural Ireland and rural communities are coming under unprecedented pressures and many are fighting for survival

Thursday, 4 April 2013

The impact of sustained high levels of unemployment and subsequent high levels of emigration among young people in rural communities cannot be overestimated. 

Poverty is more likely to…

Unemployment rising as jobs and GDP both fall in EU

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

The employment and social situation in the EU remained critical in the fourth quarter of 2012 with employment receding overall and unemployment rising further, while households' financial…

Public service pay is only one part of a coherent, integrated response to address Ireland's current difficultie

Tuesday, 26 February 2013

Public service pay is only one of a range of areas that need to be addressed in a coherent and integrated manner if the common good is to guide decisions on Ireland’s future.  Issues such as…

Oireachtas Committee Report on Jobs advocates Social Justice Ireland's Part-Time Job Opportunities Programme proposal

Tuesday, 19 February 2013

An Oireachtas Committee report published February 19, 2013 recommends that Government consider the proposal to create a Part-Time Job Opportunities programme advocated by Social Justice Ireland.…

733,000 people in poverty points to major failure of Government policy

Saturday, 16 February 2013

The increase in the proportion of Ireland’s population at risk of poverty, (from 14.7% to 16.0% in one year) clearly identifies a major policy failure by Government which has imposed a…

Corporate tax strategies threaten stability of international tax system - OECD

Friday, 15 February 2013

Global solutions are needed to ensure that tax systems do not unduly favour multinational enterprises, leaving citizens and small businesses with bigger tax bills, according to the Organisation…

Current EU policies producing rising poverty and unemployment

Wednesday, 13 February 2013

A new Caritas Europa study, reveals disturbing levels of poverty and deprivation in the five EU countries worst hit by the economic crisis; Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain.  It also…