ACCORDING TO ORDNANCE Survey Ireland, the middle of the island is somewhere between Athlone and Mullingar.
“I think it’s more of a political and social kind of way of thinking about it”, he says, rather than an economic approach. “The Taoiseach, Fine Gael, others, kind of construct a story about middle Ireland which is a much higher level of income,” he said.So who is in the middle? And are they squeezed?Barra Roantree, a researcher with the Economic and and Social Research Institute , said that the definition of the “squeezed middle” is often “in the eye of the beholder”.What we do know though is the amount people earn and what the middle income is.
Those who aren’t earning, such as pensioners or people on social protection, are also included in the statistics, which means households benefitting could be limited to “the top 20% or so”, he says. According to Taft, the ‘squeezed middle’ is created when wages are too low and services are means-tested, rather than universal.
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