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Sean Healy

Poverty in Ireland Doubles

By Irish America Staff
April / May 2015

March 16, 2015 by Leave a Comment

The latest CSO figures in Ireland uncover a troubling statistic regarding Ireland’s poor. The figures show that poverty has doubled in Ireland since 2008. One in six children and one in ten people over 65 are at risk of poverty, with 1.4 million people currently experiencing some kind of deprivation, an increase of 128% since 2008. While the poverty line has itself fallen to … [Read more...] about Poverty in Ireland Doubles

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