International Basic Income Week 2019 runs from the 16th of September to the 22nd. Social Justice Ireland has long been one of Ireland's leading proponents of Basic Income, and our 2016…
The Spending Review 2019 - Review of Carer’s Supports specifically examines carers support schemes since 2008. The report notes that the increasing numbers of children and adult of working age…
“Pensions do not exist to increase national savings or to provide jobs for actuaries, tax lawyers, accountants, fund managers and regulators. Their purpose is to allow the elderly and disabled…
In 2017, the Government launched the Action Plan for Rural Development to support the economic and social development of rural Ireland. The Second Progress Report under this Plan was published in…
Adult literacy is defined by the OECD as the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts.…
Last week, the Central Statistics Office released the most recent Labour Force Survey (Q2, 2019). The headlines are impressive: The Irish economy experienced its 28th consecutive quarter of annual…
Brexit is the manifestation of a political and social discontentment that has sadly been directed to entirely the wrong place; the result of years of anti-EU rhetoric, and failed social and…
Ireland will never achieve a Just Transition until our development is sustainable socially, economically and environmentally. Without sustainable development we will never achieve our national…
Much of the recent talk around Ireland’s labour market revolves around the idea of ‘full employment’; what it is, whether Ireland is close to it, and when Ireland might reach it.
There is…
The latest IPCC Report makes the case for better land management as one of the solutions to tackling climate change in conjunction with emissions reductions from all sectors. The report is clear…
