Emmanuel Macron’s Neoliberal Government Is Replacing Welfare With Punitive Workfarejacobin.comexternal-link 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊 ( @OneRedFox@beehaw.org ) M SocialismEnglish • 1 year ago message-square4arrow-up149
arrow-up149external-linkEmmanuel Macron’s Neoliberal Government Is Replacing Welfare With Punitive Workfarejacobin.com 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊 ( @OneRedFox@beehaw.org ) M SocialismEnglish • 1 year ago message-square4
minus-square Kajo [he/him] 🌈 ( @Kajo@beehaw.org ) linkfedilink9•1 year agoTo complete the article, there are two levels of (public) social protection in France. Unemployment insurance, which pays a percentage of your last salary if you lose your job, for several months. The RSA, mentioned in the article, which is a survival benefit for people who don’t have/no longer have access to unemployment insurance. People do their utmost to get back to work before moving from unemployment insurance to the RSA, which is the gateway to extreme poverty. This measure therefore attacks the weakest of the weak.
To complete the article, there are two levels of (public) social protection in France.
Unemployment insurance, which pays a percentage of your last salary if you lose your job, for several months.
The RSA, mentioned in the article, which is a survival benefit for people who don’t have/no longer have access to unemployment insurance.
People do their utmost to get back to work before moving from unemployment insurance to the RSA, which is the gateway to extreme poverty.
This measure therefore attacks the weakest of the weak.