Overcrowding
Youth unemployment climbing
Less likely scenario
CSO figures
“We have a working poor that are working 40 hours a week.”
The fact that the Army is having to be called in to potentially operate the airport on their watch should, in a sensible world, be a fact that demands their immediate resignations.
Larry Summers is not a politician, and therefore has a little bit more leeway when it comes to telling the truth about the likely path ahead.
Toibín says one cafe €100,000 in debt
The findings form part of a new report titled “Poverty, Income Inequality and Living Standards in Ireland” which will be published in full this Friday.
Unemployment isn’t expected to return to pre-Covid “normal” levels until at least 2025, meaning income supports similar to the PUP will very likely be with us for years, according to new official forecasts from the Department of Finance. The projections, which have been prepared by the Department for the European Commission, indicate that even with […]
Research conducted for the St Stephen’s Green Trust (SSGT) has found that over 80% of Travellers are unemployed. This means that 8,500 of the 10,650 Travellers in the labour force are out of work or unable to find employment. The data is contained in the Travellers in the Main stream Labour Market: Situation, Experience, and […]
The latest work permits statistics from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment once again indicate that the importation of employees from outside of the European Union and European Economic Area continues at only a slightly reduced scale compared to other years. A further 1,046 permits were issued in March, a fall of just 176 […]