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A study by UCLouvain, conducted at the request of the CSC, reveals that individuals who are excluded from unemployment benefits often struggle to make ends meet and find themselves in a precarious situation, despite most respondents (87%) recently working or actively looking for work. #Chômage #Exclusion #UCLouvain (translated)

The Victoire Populaire 2027 account presented what it described as the "spending" component of Jean-Luc Mélenchon's program for 2027. It indicated that this program foresaw a minimum wage of 1,700 euros net per month, a 10% increase in the civil servants' index point after its thaw, as well as a 10% increase in pensions, family allowances, and other aid. According to the account, the program would also guarantee young people an income equivalent to the poverty line, set at 1,331 euros per month, and would allocate 22.2 billion euros to public services. Lastly, it planned to repeal the pension and unemployment reforms. #Mélenchon2027 #PolitiqueFrançaise #JusticeSociale (translated)

The mayor of Caudan, Fabrice Vély, expresses his concern about the imminent judicial liquidation of the Fonderie de Bretagne, highlighting the lack of serious acquisition offers and the impact on the 244 employees who could find themselves unemployed. #FonderieDeBretagne #LiquidationJudiciaire #Emploi (translated)

Joan Larroumec stated that the French private pension system was also heavily in deficit, estimating its deficit at 77 billion euros. He argued that the public system's deficit reached 50 billion euros per year, masked in his view by accounting overcontributions, notably 82% for the state and 126% for the military. According to his calculations, the private system received 228 billion euros in contributions, against 300 billion euros in pensions paid, or 305 billion euros including management fees. He indicated that the gap was covered by subsidies, allocated taxes, and debt. He specifically cited 37 billion euros in levies related to the CSG and allocated taxes, 24 billion euros in reimbursements by the state for exemptions from charges, and 17 billion euros collected from family and unemployment funds. Larroumec estimated that the pay-as-you-go system should have been adjusted 25 years ago, either by lowering pensions or raising the retirement age, due to the aging population and the decrease in the number of active workers per retiree. He attributed the lack of reform to a lack of political will and opposition from the population, stating that the deficits had been financed through overcontributions in the public sector and by taxes, subsidies, and debt in the private sector. He also disputed the figures from the Retirement Orientation Council, which estimated the deficit at 5 billion euros. According to his calculations, 420 billion euros were spent each year on pensions, against 282 billion euros in contributions collected, leaving 137 billion euros to be found elsewhere in the economy. He suggested that political leaders were staying silent about the problem because retirees formed the largest electorate in France and that attempts at reform had cost some elected officials their jobs. #Retraites #France #Déficit (translated)

American economists Robert Hall and Michael Woodford have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their work on macroeconomics, highlighting the impact of fiscal and monetary policies on economic fluctuations and unemployment. #NobelEconomique #Macroeconomie #PolitiqueMonetaire (translated)

La Folle Histoire criticized those who asked her to stick to the facts, arguing that history could not be reduced to them. She argued that a selection of facts could present Hitler as a friend of nature and animals, an opera lover, and someone who had solved unemployment in his country, which she believed illustrated the problem with such an approach. #Histoire #Analyser #Faits (translated)