Germany’s new “Citizen’s Income”—according to Federal Labour Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD), the “biggest social reform in 20 years”—will only increase the abject poverty of the current 5.3 million recipients of Hartz IV social security payments. The new system is due to come into force on January 1, 2023.
In November last year the agreement to form the current coalition government, headed by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and including the Greens and the neoliberal Free Democratic Party, had already presented plans for an expansion of the country’s low-wage sector and the expansion of methods aimed at forcing workers into precarious […]
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