RSA young: the pressure does not fall
Volunteers from the French Secours Populaire distribute food and hygiene products to needy students in front of the University of Paris VIII, in Saint-Denis, near Paris, May 6, 2020. AFP - THOMAS SAMSON
Text by: Anthony Lattier Follow
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They are getting poorer and poorer.
Because of the health crisis, thousands of young French people, especially students, are swelling the queues of food aid distributions.
The government has drawn up a battery of emergency aid but the associations and the left are asking for more, in particular the extension of the RSA (Income of active solidarity) to all young people.
The government is defending a policy of encouraging employment.
Despite its opposition, the left is not disarming.
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Give 5,000 euros to all young people and provide them with a monthly income of 564 euros.
This is the proposal that the Socialist deputy Boris Vallaud will defend from Wednesday in the National Assembly.
"
Philosophy, it can't be"
get by. "
That is to say: "
we will help you by all means, obviously by finding you means of integration into employment, of further studies ..."
.
But when
all of this hangs on the possibility of housing and food, you have to keep their heads above water.
"
In the Senate, his socialist colleagues also tried last month to bring in a bill along the same lines which extended the RSA to all young people under 25, without success.
Their text was rejected by the right and the majority.
On Monday again, the socialist mayor of Paris Anne Hidaglo put on the table a somewhat similar proposal: 500 euros per month for all young people while the rebellious Jean-Luc Mélenchon has also been claiming for weeks the extension. of the RSA.
For the moment, the government has always rejected this proposal which also emanates from associations and unions.
"
I am not a big fan of this option
" had launched Emmanuel Macron during his
interview with Brut media.
The measure would, according to the president, discourage young people from finding work.
However, some macronists admit that we must do more to deal with the emergency.
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For the Walker Pierre Person, this involves, for example, the establishment of a Universal Activity Income, a promise from the candidate Macron.
“
That means that basically we merge all the aids that are now illegible because there are too many aids, because there are too many conditions, into a single aid.
This help is automatic.
In fact, we would not even talk about the RSA Jeune if we had implemented the presidential promise which was the Universal Activity Income.
It should already be in effect
.
"
The national delegate of La République en Marche Stanislas Guérini proposes to grant a loan of 10,000 euros for each young person to help them get started in life.
Rather than universal financial support, the government is currently giving priority to aid for training, apprenticeship or integration into the labor market.
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