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# Poverty

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Column: Extreme poverty is right in front of us – and what are we doing?
Sr Stanislaus Kennedy
18 May 2012
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The Daily Fix: Monday
16 Apr 2012
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Column: Why is the payment of €1.5bn to bondholders not news?
Stephen Donnelly
11 Apr 2012
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Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know this morning…
10 Apr 2012
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Report: 700,000 living in poverty in Ireland
10 Apr 2012
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Column: Tackling poverty is not just about money, it's about persuasion
Abhijit V. Banerjee
10 Apr 2012
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Top earners see 8% increase in disposable income: CSO
28 Mar 2012
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Disposable income falls and risk of poverty rises: CSO
28 Mar 2012
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Time not right for Single Working Age Payment, says Oireachtas committee
13 Mar 2012
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TheJournal.ie’s progress report for the Government: Social welfare
9 Mar 2012
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Column: Women and girls hold solution to extreme poverty
Bernadette Crawford
8 Mar 2012
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Ireland gives €5 million in emergency funding to Sahel region
20 Feb 2012
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Gilmore: Communion allowance cut to stop 'lavish' spending
2 Feb 2012
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Government ‘failing its own targets’ on poverty and unemployment
30 Jan 2012
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Businesses club together to host party for 500 homeless people
19 Jan 2012
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Unemployment is the world's fastest growing concern - survey
12 Dec 2011
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Two senators nominated by Enda Kenny critical of Budget 2012
8 Dec 2011
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In numbers: the first half of Budget 2012
5 Dec 2011
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Child benefit cut 'unfairly targets the most vulnerable'
5 Dec 2011
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Column: Applying the lessons of beating Big Tobacco to beating Big Food
Frank Armstrong
3 Dec 2011
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Column: The drugs do work - but there are new obstacles in the fight against AIDS
Breda Gahan
1 Dec 2011
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Almost a quarter of Irish people living in ‘deprivation’ – survey
30 Nov 2011
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Column: These arrests won’t tackle the root causes of crime in Limerick
Niamh Hourigan
24 Nov 2011
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Dramatic increase in number of people sleeping rough in Dublin
21 Nov 2011
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Catholic priests in Dublin to face 9 per cent income cut
10 Nov 2011
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Column: An open letter to the world’s seven billionth child
Tom Arnold
31 Oct 2011
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Charity expresses concern about out-of-date poverty figures
30 Sep 2011
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300% increase in people needing 5c dinners
28 Sep 2011
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Nearly 800,000 children in Somalia face immediate death
22 Jul 2011
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Demand for help from children's charity 'higher than ever' as Barnardos releases new ad
13 Jun 2011
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More Irish families being pushed into poverty and seeking advice
28 Apr 2011
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Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know by 9am: The HSE offers its sympathy to the family of a woman who died shortly after giving birth to a healthy daughter; tornadoes and storms ravage the US; the super-injunction celebrities named.
28 Apr 2011
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The poorest countries in the developed world...
15 Apr 2011
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Gap between rich and poor broadened since 1987
31 Jan 2011
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Good Morning
The 9 at 9 Nine things you need to know this morning, including: Micheál Martin set to name new front bench; Egyptian protests set to continue for seventh day; and the Geezer Bandit strikes again.
31 Jan 2011
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Gouda news story: the free cheese is out there
16 Nov 2010
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Haiti cholera epidemic death toll hits 900
15 Nov 2010
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Child beggars up by 9%, according to ISPCC
9 Nov 2010
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One in seven living in poverty in US
17 Sep 2010
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