For months, associations have been warning: because of the health crisis and its economic consequences, more than a million French people will be added to the 9.3 million people already living below the poverty line (1,063 euros for a single person). Faced with this social disaster increased tenfold by the Covid-19, 24 presidents of departmental councils, all socialists, offer their solution: a “basic income”. Or, according to certain criteria, the payment to citizens by the public power of a sum of money – here set at the poverty line. In a column published in the world, elected officials demand […]
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