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Report from Claiming our Future's May event on inequality in Galway
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Ideas to tackle Income Inequality: A report from Claiming our Future’s Second National Event,
Galway, May 2011
This is the report from the four ‘consensors’, appointed by the Claiming our Future Coordinating
Committee to draw together and summarise the key elements of the deliberations
which emerged at the second National Event. The report is drawn from the short report…
ContinuePosted by Is Feidir Linn on August 22, 2011 at 6:19pm
Executive Pay in the US continues to increase
One of the key themes of Is Feidir Linn, also reflected in the Income Inequality theme of Claiming our Future, has been the rapid growth in the pay of CEOs and other higher corporate executives. The Claiming our Future event in Galway in May came up with a few ideas about how to tackle this - a High Pay Commission, requiring companies to publish the ratio between their lowest and highest paid workers in their annual…
ContinuePosted by Is Feidir Linn on July 14, 2011 at 9:58pm — 1 Comment
Success at Claiming our Future's 'Income inequality event'
The second national Claiming our Future event in Galway went off extremely well with up to 250 people participating in a detailed and passionate deliberation about income inequality and what to do about it.
The event gathered a good deal of national publicity, with RTE radio bringing their Saturday View programme to Galway for the event. Is Feidir Linn's Mary Murphy represented Claiming our Future on the…
ContinuePosted by Is Feidir Linn on June 1, 2011 at 10:14pm — 1 Comment
Borrowers Can be Choosers - Are there alternatives to the IMF/EU Bailout
Galway One World and Galway Claiming our Future organised an event in February on the theme: 'Borrowers can be choosers - Are there alternatives to the IMF/EU Bailout?'
Below are some links to video recordings of the various inputs by the speakers at the event:
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Posted by Is Feidir Linn on April 6, 2011 at 9:39pm
Stiglitz-Sen Commission
Its aim is to identify the limits of GDP as an indicator of economic performance and social progress, to consider additional information required for the production of a more relevant picture, to discuss how to present this information in the most appropriate way, and to check the feasibility of measurement tools proposed by the Commission. Commission's work is not focused on France, nor on developed countries.
The Commission has now reported and its (250 page) report can be downloaded here Stiglitz:Sen Report.pdf
and the main site can be accessed here
Vox Pop from 'Claiming our Future' event
Is Féidir Linn was one of the groupings involved in organising the Claiming our Future event to progress these concerns.
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