French President Emmanuel Macron presented a $9 billion (8 billion-euro) plan to combat poverty, seeking to counter criticism that he’s favored the wealthy during his first 16 months in office.
The four-year push, coupled with a proposal to reshape a range of government benefits into a basic income, will target a lack of social mobility that keeps generations in poverty because of the French welfare system’s inefficiency, Macron said in a speech in Paris on Thursday.
"This is not a charity plan, this is not to live a bit better in poverty; this is about getting out of poverty," Macron said. […]
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