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Increasing in-work benefits like the Working Family Payment could be effective, experts say.

A little while ago, we ran a story on Wycombe’s lost shops and readers’ memories of their favourites.

South East follows Dublin in high youth unemployment post pandemic Social Justice Ireland is expecting a major explosion in youth unemployment when the pandemic is over. Its new study shows of those who don’t expect to return to their previous job, almost 112 thousand are between the ages of 15 and 34. Older people aged 60-64 will also be badly affected, with more than one in five of these workers not expecting to return to their job. Social Justice Ireland Economic and Social Analyst, Collette Bennett says unemployment will spiral in Dublin by 350 per cent and the South East will also be h...

It IS possible to implement a Basic Income for artists and art workers, according to Social Justice Ireland. The Think-Tank’s latest study shows that the Government could honour its commitment to pilot a Universal Basic Income by introducing a Basic Income for artists as proposed recently by the Arts and Culture Recovery Taskforce Report. They […]

County Council spent €6million in 2020 to landlords in rental payment That’s according to Collette Bennett from Social Justice Ireland Speaking on Morning Mix, Ms. Bennet says there were 613 households on rent assistance in Wexford in 2020. “That’s according to the governments own statistics. “We talk about leases that are being entered into by local authorities across the country for 25 years, if you look at that figure over a 25 year period, you’re looking at almost 150 million euro and you get nothing at the end of it. “Think of all of the houses you could build out of that.�...