A minimum income standard for Ireland : a consensual budget standards study examining household types across the lifecycle
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Micheál L. Collins, Bernadette Mac Mahon, Gráinne Weld, Robert Thornton, 'A minimum income standard for Ireland : a consensual budget standards study examining household types across the lifecycle', [report], Policy Institute (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland)), Studies in public policy (Policy Institute (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland))), 27, 2012, 2012-02Download Item:
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Ireland. Department of Social Protection
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Why this study? Current debates about the eradication of poverty are not sufficiently informed by socially agreed empirically based income standards. They have been developed by negotiation between policy-makers at national level and not by informed social consensus about what households need in order to have a minimum essential standard of living. Poverty is officially measured through income and deprivation measures, but these are not based on a standard of living which meets a household’s minimum essential needs. This research sets out to establish a minimum income standard for Ireland, based on the minimum needs of household types across the lifecycle, as determined through the consensual budget standards work of the Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice.Corporate name:
Vincentian Partnership for Social JusticeIreland. Department of Social Protection
Policy Institute (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland))
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Income, Household financial management, Child income supportISBN:
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