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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Ireland: ''Income of poorest households fell by more than 18% in one year while the income of richest households rose by 4%''

From Social Justice Ireland

''The income of Ireland’s poorest households fell by more than 18% in a single year while the income of the richest rose by more than 4%.  There is something profoundly wrong with Government decisions that produce this lop-sided distribution of income favouring the richest when Ireland’s poor and middle-income people struggle to make ends meet in these extremely difficult times.

These are some of the key finding contained in Social Justice Ireland’s Policy Briefing published on July 16, 2012 which analyses the related issues of Poverty and Income Distribution and shows how Ireland’s income distribution has changed over the past 30 years.''

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