Climate change is the most pressing issue facing us all as a global community – President Michael D Higgins at the Cork Conference on Intergenerational Climate Justice.
The European Union has to become a caring Union, looking out for the socially deprived, Social Justice Ireland tells Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Future of the European Union.
A study conducted by SJI, shows that while there should be no net reduction in tax in Budget 2018, the impact of some proposals currently being considered would be what it called “profoundly unfair” because they favour only those with higher incomes.
One in ten workers are on the minimum wage, twice what was previously estimated.
“Ireland in 2016 has the resources to implement a basic income system,” says Fr Seán Healy.
Investing €400m on rural broadband would have better impact on productivity than tax cuts.
Peace and security policies were at the centre of the debate of the spring plenary assembly of COMECE's bishops in Brussels.
Social Justice Ireland proposes new €7bn 3-year investment programme to boost recovery.