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# poverty line

Last year
2022
# Energy Crisis
Stark rise in deprivation as more people struggle to heat homes and face utility bill arrears
The number of people living in deprivation and struggling to heat their homes has risen in 2022
All time
Voices
Opinion: 'In modern Ireland, you are invisible without money'
These lives matter as much as those whose accumulated wealth has been transferred to them through generations of social mobility, writes Audry Deane.
# poverty line
Almost one in six Irish households is jobless
The rate refers to households where no adult is working.
# marie bock
Meet the former accountant who dumpster dives and lives in New York City on $5,000 a year
She even manages to make it along to the opera occasionally.
# poverty line
Three quarters of people with spinal injuries in Ireland are unemployed
Four in ten people with spinal cord injuries live at or below the poverty line.