In the news: fight against poverty, will the new plan be enough?

In the news fight against poverty will the new plan

Question asked on the first page of West France. “ The government unveiled its new strategy to combat poverty yesterday, a plan particularly awaited in a context of high inflation. Among the announcements, points to the newspaper, free breakfasts at school, a return to work bonus, or even emergency accommodation places maintained… »

A ” large jumble », exclaims Releasewhich is far from having convinced the associations fighting against poverty. Release who quotes Noam Leandri, from the Alerte collective, which brings together 34 solidarity associations and federations: “ it’s more about, he said, of a poverty management plan, rather than a plan to combat poverty, contrary to what we were asking for. »

To the left, point again Liberation, the PCF criticizes ‘patches which barely patch up a few emergencies’, and at LFI, MP Aurélie Trouvé mocks a plan which ‘does not plan to increase people’s income, nor to control the crazy prices of food, housing, energy’. Another request that remained unanswered was that of the regularization of undocumented immigrants, also notes Release. A major source of poverty is linked to foreigners who are not regularized, there are between 300,000 and 500,000 according to estimates. ‘Regularization through work is, however, a measure that would cost nothing, comments Noam Leandri, “all it takes is a circular.” »

The good news, on the other hand, recognizes in Ouest France Pascal Brice, president of the Federation of Solidarity Actors, is the maintenance of 203,000 emergency accommodation places for 2024. And the announcement of an additional envelope for food aid. (…) Globally, he concludes, there are useful measures. But we would need the government to go much further, particularly on structural measures to combat poverty, such as social housing. »

Also in the news, school bullying…

With the emotion and anger caused by the suicide at the beginning of September of this 15-year-old high school student, Nicolas, victim of harassment, and whose distress was ignored and even denied by the institution…

For National Education, the time can no longer be for simple awareness, considers South-West. That time has passed. It is now a revolution that it must accomplish. Both in the detection, apprehension and resolution of harassment. »

It is estimated at nearly 1 million, exclaims Le Figaro, the number of children and adolescents who today suffer from this scourge of harassment – covered with mockery and insults, targets of vindictiveness without cause but without respite. A million. Obviously, harassment, at school as elsewhere, is not new. But today he is taking new paths, relieving Le Figaro, which make the hunt even more unbearable. Here is the child, the adolescent, persecuted in class, but also hunted at home, and constantly mistreated by interposed screens, dragged through the mud of social networks, buried under the vileness carried by these multipliers of false friends. »

In fact, complete The cross the responsibility of social networks in harassment, which can lead to the suicide of victims, is regularly highlighted. »

The cross who cites the example of Marie, 15 years old, who killed herself in September 2021. “ A few weeks before her suicide, the teenager had published a video on TikTok in which she confided her discomfort and her pain at being harassed for her weight. The recommendation algorithm, particularly powerful on this short video platform, then began to ‘offer’ a flood of content on the same theme. Which can ‘only lead to being even worse’ “, says the parents’ lawyer today.For her, “TikTok ‘obviously has its share of responsibility in the act’ of young Marie. »

His parents filed a complaint against the platform for “ failure to assist a person in danger ” And “ provocation to suicide “. This is a first in France.

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