The 2025/26 real #LivingWage rate for Ireland will be announced on Wednesday 1st October. www.livingwage.ie

The #MESL2025 report out today! Read the report for details of the Minimum Essential Standard of Living in 2025: 📈18.8% change in MESL costs from 2020 to 2025 👩‍👦‍👦Update on minimum needs of children 💶Adequacy of social protection rates and minimum wage www.budgeting.ie

Join the team at the Vincentian MESL research centre. We're hiring a MESL Researcher (on a specific purpose contract). 🗓️Applications close on 23rd May 2025 👉 www.svp.ie/careers/work...

New @esri.ie paper finds 11% of people live in households below the Minimum Essential Standard of Living. Children, lone parents, working age single adults and renters are the most effected. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci...

Our #MESL Impact Briefing assessing Budget 2025 is out now. We analyse the impact of Budget 2025, applying the MESL data to examine the impact of the announced measures on income adequacy next year. The briefing is available at www.budgeting.ie/publications/budget-2025-1/

Our @europeansocieties.bsky.social article with @surili.bsky.social is featured in today's Irish Times (@irishtimes.bsky.social) with some on-point quotes by us. www.irishtimes.com/ireland/soci... Full paper here:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616696.2023.2275592

#MESL Working Paper 'The cost of adequately heating the home' published. Examines  • cost of meeting energy need, by dwelling efficiency for 4 household types, • burden of energy costs  • risk of #energypoverty in social welfare and minimum wage scenarios. www.budgeting.ie/publications...