Thegood news is that poverty fell by 100,000 over the most recent three-year period for which statistics are available.  The bad news is that the current economic crisis and its attendant rising unemployment do not augur well for poverty in Ireland.

Almost a third of all households at risk of poverty are headed by a person WITH a job (31.3% in 2007, up from 29.5% in 2006).  These are the ‘working poor’. Government has failed to take the necessary initiatives to tackle this working poor issue.

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