Four Tests for the New Government

Test 1: Will the Government redistribute income towards the poorest 20% of the population? Test 2: Will the Government strengthen access to quality employment? Test 3: Will the Government restore and strengthen public services which are of particular importance to people on low income? Test 4: Will

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Future Perspectives of the Community Platform

The Community Platform, on 14th July 2015, launched ‘A Future Perspective of the Community Platform’. It draws on data available to show the devastation caused by austerity policies and growing economic and social inequality in Ireland. It poses specific challenges for government and all political parties to

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Now you see us

Today a new report by a network of 30 leading Irish national organisations working against poverty and inequality highlights the Government's failure to protect the most vulnerable in society. It warns that the dual attack of unemployment and relentless cuts at national and local level has pushed

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Paying our way: Proposals for a progressive tax system

Ireland has the fourth lowest tax take as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product in the European Union. As a society we have come to expect western European levels of social and economic development yet are only willing to pay eastern European levels of taxation. As our

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