The German parties are currently outbidding themselves with proposals for a reform of Hartz IV. More and more ideas of basic income are infiltrating their concepts. No other social benefit is as controversial as unemployment benefit II, also popularly known as Hartz IV. Thirteen years after its introduction, it not only engages German social courts, but also the parties. Both the Greens and the SPD want to leave behind the unpopular basic security. But also the FDP and the Left Party have been calling for a long time to abolish or fundamentally reform Hartz IV. But what comes instead? […]
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