Statistics

Question 1

Income in 2015.

Answer 1

2015 - the national median income was 20,000 making the at risk of poverty 12,000

Question 2

Government plan

Answer 2

National social target for poverty reductions-

Aim: to reduce consistent poverty to 4% by 2016 & 2% by 2020 from the 2010 baseline rate of 6.2%

Question 3

Consistent poverty rate-

Answer 3

2015- 26.7% up from 9.7% in 2008.
Children more vulnerable with 11.5% living in consistent poverty in 2016.
Single parent households - continues to increasingly rise from 17.8% in 2008 to 26.2% in 2015.
Increased by 100,000 since recession so 750,000 now in it.
18% are employed and classed as ‘working poor’

Question 4

Definition of working poor

Answer 4

The working poor are working people whose income falls below a given poverty line

lohmann 2008

Question 5

Dr Sean healys quote

Answer 5

More than 57% of those in poverty are not connected to the labour market; they are people who are retired, students, people in caring roles and people who Sick or disabled

Question 6

Michelle Murphy policy research analyst

Answer 6

Without social welfare payments more than half of the Irish population would be living in poverty such an underlying poverty rate suggests a deeply unequal distribution of income