Social investment

A partnership between Credit Unions and Belfast City Council could make £100 million available for social investment…

Soapbox on April 4, 2017, 4:39 pm

| Readers 1388

John Hume once said the Credit Union movement that of “all the things I’ve been doing, it’s the thing I’m proudest of because no movement has done more good for the people of Ireland, north and south, than the credit union movement.” This is some acknowledgement from a Nobel Peace Laureate but then again he was a founder member of Derry Credit Union and at the age of 27 he became the youngest ever President of the Irish League of Credit …

On the advantages of a ‘social investment welfare state’…

Mick Fealty on March 30, 2012, 9:54 am

| Readers 27

Here’s a nicely topical post from Niamh Hardiman who is spending a semester in North Carolina at the moment… In it she talks about the the idea of the ‘social investment welfare state’, which may have implications for Ireland as it struggles not simply with a debt problem, but a widening gap in income levels and a potential deadening of social mobility levels we’ve seen in the UK: New books (1) by Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier, and Joakim Palme and by Anton Hemerijck …