Nature abhors a vacuum.

We are failing to meet the UN’s 17 sustainable development goals.

It is critically important for both Ireland’s economy and its people that the housing crisis is solved, according to Social Justice Ireland.

There are calls for the next Government to agree to UN commitments on overseas aid.

The starting gun has sounded on the general election campaign. All parties are out of the blocks with promises and pledges but what should this election really be about?

The plan has been welcomed by St. Vincent's de Paul but head of Social Justice Ireland, Dr Seán Healy described the plan as too little too late.

Is the country destined to wait until the challenges of aging morph into a crisis before action is even contemplated, asks Michael Clifford

Instead of the budget investing in combating the housing crisis, Government is happy to fritter away €147m a year on emergency accommodation, says Colette Bennett

The report shows six in 10 employees are paying for their own courses, even though more than half of their bosses say it's an employers' responsibility.

We are, belatedly, beginning to dip our collective toe into the hard-decisions stage of our efforts to avert climate change.

Dublin spoken-word poet Stephen James Smith talks to Ellie O’Byrne as he faces economic exile from his city.

Social Justice Ireland has called for social welfare rates to rise by €9 a week.

"We risk repeating the mistakes of the past, with devastating consequences". That's the warning issued about Ireland's economy after Britain leaves the EU.

An airline ticket tax and other carbon taxes, an increased betting tax, and setting a minimum rate of corporation tax, feature among the proposals of advocacy group Social Justice Ireland in its proposals for October’s budget.

It is important that tax reliefs — particularly the costliest ones — are scrutinised and that there is proper parliamentary debate to ensure they remain cost-effective and fit for purpose, writes Eamon Murphy.

So that’s Wednesday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

Next week, Social Justice Ireland and Trócaire will co-host a hustings event ahead of the European Elections on May 24th. Dr. Seán Healy, Director, Social Justice Ireland, sets out the five key policy asks in that joint policy platform.

There were 24,500 people earning less than the minimum wage at the end of last year, according to the Central Statistics Office.

So that’s Monday nearly wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

One in five children in Ireland — some 230,000 of the country’s population — is living in a family with income below the poverty line, an issue that needs to be addressed by policy changes, according to an independent social justice think tank.

A fifth of children are at risk of poverty, either because their parents are on welfare, which is inadequate, or are working, but paid too little, writes Seán Healy

One in five people in Ireland is spending 40% or more of their wages on rent.

Irish people are more likely to live in substandard housing, pay over the odds for rent, and have trouble accessing healthcare than many of our EU neighbours, according to a new report.

So that’s nearly Friday wrapped up. Here’s some of the stories we published on irishexaminer.com today which we hope will help you make sense of it all this evening.

People on lower salaries will be worst affected by an increase to the carbon tax, according to Social Justice Ireland.

The Joint Committee on Climate Action has published its cross-party report.

Higher income earners gained 10 times as much as low earners in Budget 2019, that’s according to anti-poverty group Social Justice Ireland (SJI).

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The independent think tank says the government can now afford to eradicate problems in priority areas like health, homelessness and poverty.

Business leaders and unions today present their wishlist to the Government for Budget 2019.

Social Justice Ireland yesterday suggested that the Government needs to increase taxes by €3bn to fund a fair and equal society. That would be a 6% increase on the €50.7bn collected last year, €13.1bn of which was paid as income tax.

The Government needs to raise up to €3bn in additional tax revenue per year to fund a fair, equal and progressive future for Ireland according to a new book published today by Social Justice Ireland.

It’s been a while since the Victorian historian, Thomas Carlyle, described economics as the dismal science, but, even so, the discipline and its practitioners’ predictions have more influence than they did in Carlyle’s time.

The American philosopher Henry David Thoreau once observed that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation”.

More than 104,000 people with a job are at risk of poverty.

Around one in seven people in poverty have jobs but low rates of pay and loose contracts mean they can’t make a living wage.

The Government’s new pensions plan has missed the opportunity to provide a Universal Pension as a basic right to all citizens, a new study finds.

When the history of the Brexit debacle comes to be written, and depending on who writes it, the assertion by Britain’s then justice secretary, Michael Gove, in June 2016, that “people in this country have had enough of experts” may be recognised as a call to the basest instincts of an uncertain, unnerved electorate longing for a return to the imagined magnificence offered by the catchall deception called “sovereignty”.

Ireland ranks 11th of 15 similar EU countries on a range of social and economic indicators, according to a report released to coincide with World Day of Social Justice.

One million people in Ireland are either poor or deprived, despite a booming economy, according to Social Justice Ireland. Among them are 250,000 children and 100,000 “working poor”.

Homelessness campaigners are seeking new legislation to stop the “cruel and inhuman” use of spikes and sprinklers to deter rough sleepers.

Tax changes in the budget are “most unfair” with those on higher incomes benefiting the most, according to Social Justice Ireland.

The Government is being urged to ditch plans for tax cuts in the Budget.