A third of Irish households have less than 30-thousand euro in gross income.
55 percent have less than 50-thousand euro coming in.
Those findings are part of new research from the Nevin Economic Research Institute, which is releasing its 4th quarterly economic observer today.
NERI also says said the Government isn’t ikely to reach its target of a 3% budget deficit by 2015 due to a weaker than forecast economic growth and higher than forecast unemployment.
Ennis man Dr. Micheál Collins is an research officer with NERI – he says the findings should help form public policy:
