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The beneficiaries of the RSA hardly note its advantages
Twenty years after the RMI (Minimum Income Benefit) was created, the RSA (Low Income Benefit) was supposed to improve the previous RMI specifically in terms of unemployment and poverty. This new mechanism is based on a benefit paid as a … Continue reading
Posted in Synthesis
Tagged French people, French society, minimum income benefit, poverty, precariousness, social exclusion, the French, unemployment
Housing crisis reinforce the feeling of drop in status
In the last fifteen years, housing prices have been multiplied by 2.5 in France, whereas in the same time incomes have been multiplied only by 1.6. Rents have increased also faster than the incomes. In brief, the spending dedicated to … Continue reading
Posted in Synthesis
Tagged French people, French society, housing, housing crisis, housing spending, purchasing power, the French
Homeowners / tenants : a new social division has emerged
In the past fifteen years, real estate prices in France have excessively increased compared with the households incomes. From 1996 to 2011, the prices of the older buildings were multiplied by 2.5, the rents by 1.6 while households incomes were … Continue reading
Posted in Synthesis
Tagged crisis, French opinion, French people, French society, housing, housing crisis, purchasing power, the French
Middle classes in Europe
Middle classes are very often in the centre of public debates. Main statements are that the middle class would be on the decline, menaced by pauperization, fiscally pressurised and neglected by the welfare state. Moreover, it would risk to implode … Continue reading
Posted in Studies and Research
Tagged crisis, French people, French society, middle class, the French
Collateral damages of the housing crisis to the living conditions of the population
Increasing housing prices were largely disconnected from the evolution of household incomes over the last fifteen years in France. Between 1996 and 2011, housing prices (in the ancient) have been multiplied by 2.5 and rents by 1.6 while the available … Continue reading
Posted in Studies and Research
Tagged French people, French society, housing, housing crisis, housing spending, purchasing power, the French