In today's nationwide protest climate, the increase in poverty seems to be the spark that started it all. We can thus wonder WHO is at risk of poverty in France today and WHY?
Hello, As for me , I think that nowadays young people (former highschool students, attending college) are one of the type of people at risk of poverty. They don't have the qualifications nor the experience, yet, that companies are looking for. And their hometown may not provide them with a well paid job, so they may be stuck with odd jobs for a few years until they save enough money to move out. Jobs are lacking in our country and the progress of technology doesn't help in this case. I'm also concerned for ordinary people, who weren't particularly good at school or very ambitious (which isn't bad itself). For instance, cashiers that we see every day are progressively being replaced by automatic checkout. And those people aren't qualified enough to apply for better jobs, since working at a supermarket is what they've been doing for years. I don't think we can expect every person to be qualified enough to be a doctor or an engineer. Therefore we shouldn't make the professional world more competitive than it already is. The government should be able to provide jobs or solutions to effectively elevate the whole population's living conditions, like increasing the minimum wage. Overall, everybody is fighting for a job and not fall into poverty and misery. Young people in order to start their lives, middle-aged people trying to keep theirs, and old people exhausting themselves at their current job or struggling to find one due to their age.
I think that people are not really at risk of "poverty". Certainly they will be poorer than others, but we cannot really talk about poverty in France. They will just be people who will be able to consume less, but whatever the case may be, France offers enough help so that no one is short of food or shelter. I can understand that older people are not happy to see their retirement reduced, and that people who work for low wages are dissatisfied when people who do not work earn more with the help. But it is by no means the fault of the current president or the current French people. These are all the consequences of a failed system that was put in place after the Second World War. Indeed, while the population is constantly growing, especially at that time, the state preferred to pay people to do nothing rather than find them work. But all this money spent on social assistance had to be found somewhere, so the incessant increase in taxes. But people who have paid for the benefits for so many years do not want to see their well-deserved retirement reduced. That is why France is getting poorer. Mathilde Bescond 1S1
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ReplyDeleteAs for me , I think that nowadays young people (former highschool students, attending college) are one of the type of people at risk of poverty. They don't have the qualifications nor the experience, yet, that companies are looking for. And their hometown may not provide them with a well paid job, so they may be stuck with odd jobs for a few years until they save enough money to move out.
Jobs are lacking in our country and the progress of technology doesn't help in this case.
I'm also concerned for ordinary people, who weren't particularly good at school or very ambitious (which isn't bad itself).
For instance, cashiers that we see every day are progressively being replaced by automatic checkout. And those people aren't qualified enough to apply for better jobs, since working at a supermarket is what they've been doing for years. I don't think we can expect every person to be qualified enough to be a doctor or an engineer. Therefore we shouldn't make the professional world more competitive than it already is. The government should be able to provide jobs or solutions to effectively elevate the whole population's living conditions, like increasing the minimum wage.
Overall, everybody is fighting for a job and not fall into poverty and misery. Young people in order to start their lives, middle-aged people trying to keep theirs, and old people exhausting themselves at their current job or struggling to find one due to their age.
I think that people are not really at risk of "poverty". Certainly they will be poorer than others, but we cannot really talk about poverty in France. They will just be people who will be able to consume less, but whatever the case may be, France offers enough help so that no one is short of food or shelter. I can understand that older people are not happy to see their retirement reduced, and that people who work for low wages are dissatisfied when people who do not work earn more with the help. But it is by no means the fault of the current president or the current French people. These are all the consequences of a failed system that was put in place after the Second World War. Indeed, while the population is constantly growing, especially at that time, the state preferred to pay people to do nothing rather than find them work. But all this money spent on social assistance had to be found somewhere, so the incessant increase in taxes. But people who have paid for the benefits for so many years do not want to see their well-deserved retirement reduced. That is why France is getting poorer.
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