Week 5: How have different groups been impacted by the
recession?
Week 5:How have different groups been impacted by the
recession?Sarah.kennedy.2009@nuim.ieSarahkennedytutorials.blogspot.comOffice
Hour: Tues @ 10 (B.2/B/4)
Mid-term evaluation:Stop Start Continue for tutorials.Anything
youre unhappy with, or unsure of from lectures.
Mini-assignment for next weeks tutorial:Discuss the role of
education in understanding inequality in Ireland.300 words.
Economic Inequality in IrelandAccording to Revenue data, the top
1% of income earners in Ireland averaged 373,300 compared to 27,400
for the bottom 90% (2011)
The top 10% hold somewhere between 42% to 58% of Irelands wealth
compared to 12% for the bottom 50%:
http://www.tasc.ie/download/pdf/tasc_cherishing_all_equally_web.pdf?issuusl=ignore
Effects of the Recession:Vulnerable Groups?Women and MenRuth
Coppinger -> Joan Burton - Feminisation of PovertyYouth
unemploymentSingle parents at particular risk of poverty, along
with non-married, cohabiting couples. Non-Irish Nationals e.g.
growth of racism.People with disabilities e.g. cut to SNAs.
https://www.esri.ie/UserFiles/publications/QEC2014Win_SA_Keane.pdf
Effects of the Recession:Child PovertyIreland ranked 37th out of
41 countries EU and OECD countries, with only Croatia, Latvia,
Greece and Iceland faring worse.Child poverty rose from 18% in
2008, to 28.6 in 2012.Result of market exclusion and cuts to social
welfare. Unicef Ireland executive director Peter Power said the
wellbeing of children should be given priority during economic
recessions. Children living in poverty were more likely to become
impoverished adults and have poor children, creating and sustaining
intergenerational cycles of poverty, he
added.http://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/decade-lost-as-children-in-ireland-bear-brunt-of-recession-1.1979612Dewi
and Putri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0wHffQi4xo
Accumulation of vulnerability:Chart the life course (from birth
to death) of:LisaMiddle-class, two-parent
family.CaoimheWorking-class, lone-parent family.
What can be done?
