Covid: the silent shift into the poverty of the Picardy countryside
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Food distribution from the Red Cross.
(Illustrative image) RFI / David Baché
By: Lise Verbeke
21 min
Temporary workers, artisans, self-employed workers, students, the coronavirus health crisis has pushed a million French people into poverty, according to 10 charities, Abbé Pierre Foundation, Secours Catholique, ATD Fourth World, Emmaüs, Médecins du monde, etc.
A number which is added to the 9.3 million people already living under the poverty line (1,063 euros per month and per consumption unit).
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New poor who are still underestimated by the scale of the phenomenon according to associations.
Especially in the countryside, because this new poverty or the increase in it for people who are already precarious, is more hidden than in the city, more silent, we dare not talk about it less.
“Covid: the silent shift into the poverty of the Picardy countryside”, a major report by Lise Verbeke.
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