Notes on the Front

Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU

Month: February 2019

  • The Great Public Sector Pay Debate (Again)

    Commentators are increasingly turning to the subject of public sector pay – in large part, to warn against pay increases or increased employment.  In some cases history is being re-written. …


  • What Finland’s Universal Basic Income Experiment Can Tell Us

    In 2017 the Finnish Government launched a two-year experiment in Universal Basic Income (UBI).  2,000 unemployed people were selected at random and paid an unconditional €560 per month (though, in…


  • Public Housing can Help us Avoid a Bad Brexit

    With all the commentary understandably focused on a ‘hard border’ it is easy to forget that even in a soft Brexit, with a satisfactory outcome to the border, the hit…


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