INTERVIEW
It is a health and economic crisis. When it struck France, the coronavirus claimed many lives, but it also shut down the national economy. This has mechanically led to falls in income in some households, but also widened inequalities in a large number of sectors of society. "The Covid crisis and the confinement played the role of revealing inequalities", confirms this Thursday on the microphone "Europe's big evening newspaper" of Europe 1, the director of the Opinion department of Ifop, Jérôme Fourquet.
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Inequalities in both the economy and education
From school to work, the two months of confinement brought to light a France at several speeds. At school level alone, the question of dropouts has been raised a lot. One might think that with two months without school, the educational divide has increased between children whose parents could help them with homework, and those who had no opportunity to deal with it, "says the director. But "we could also take the case of people who have been forced to go to their place of work, and those who have teleworked from their homes".
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Help for the most deprived to "fill the fridge"
In this context, the exceptional aid that the Caf will pay from this Friday to more than 4 million households, for a total of 900 million euros, is it able to restore a certain balance? No, "it allows you to fill the fridge, it is only a bandage. We will have to take over with support work that will probably have to be put in place for very long months," says T -he. "Because this economic crisis will undoubtedly result in a spectacular rise in unemployment, and the weakening of many families".
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The worst is yet to come
"Most of the population has not yet felt the economic effects of this epidemic, [...] thanks to partial unemployment." But where things are going to be "more critical", it is with "the consequences of the shutdown of the economy": "It is now that we will see the extent of the damage, a bit like when the tsunami retreats after a storm and we see the disaster. "