A homeless man in Paris.

Poverty in Francehas fallen by 60% over thirty years. Although it affected 15% of the population in 1970, in 2001 only 6.1% (or 3.7 million people) were below the poverty line(which, according to INSEE's criteria, is half of the median income). Before, the poor were for the most part retirees. The trend reversed itself in the 1980s with an increase in unemployment among young people; while poverty among the elderly dropped 85% (from 27.3% to 3.8%), among those still in the workforce it increased by 38% over the same 30 years (from 3.9% to 5.4%). Various social welfare programs have had an important impact in low-income households, and in 2002, they may in some cases have represented more than 50% of the household's income.^[1] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (900x700, 249 KB) Summary FR: SDF a Paris ENG: Homeless Author : -- Eric Pouhier Date : June 2005 Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Homelessness ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (900x700, 249 KB) Summary FR: SDF a Paris ENG: Homeless Author : -- Eric Pouhier Date : June 2005 Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Homelessness ... This article is about the capital of France. ... A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows what he found. ... Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ... INSEE is the French abbreviation for the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (French: Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques). ... The median household income is commonly used to provide data about smaller geographic areas. ...

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Status in 2005

In 2005, the poverty line was fixed at 645 euros per person per month. By comparison, the revenu minimum d'insertion (RMI, which idea draws on guaranteed minimum income, although it is not distributed to any one) was at that time 440.86 euros per month for a person living alone.^[2] The French poverty line is slightly higher than that of the United States,^[3] suggesting that some who would be considered living in poverty in France would not be if they had the same income in the United States. However, it is difficult to compare them as they are not calculated in the same way, notwithstanding differences in cost or standards of living. While the French poverty threshold is calculated as being half of the median income, the U.S. poverty threshold is based on dollar costs of the economy food plan, that is, on income inequality^[4] Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ... For other uses, see Euro (disambiguation). ... The Revenu minimum dinsertion (RMI) is a French form of social welfare. ... Guaranteed minimum income is a proposed system of income redistribution that would provide eligible citizens with a certain sum of money (independent of whether they work or not), also known as Basic Income Guarantee (BIG), universal basic income, citizens income scheme, demogrant, or just a basic income (the term... A cost-of-living index measures the cost of goods and services, typically over time. ... The Standard of living refers to the quality and quantity of goods and services available to people. ... Income inequality metrics or income distribution metrics are techniques used by economists to measure the distribution of income among the participants in a particular economy, such as that of a specific country or of the world in general. ...

In 2005:

• A million children (8%) were living below the poverty line;
• 42,000 children were affected by lead poisoning, a sign of decrepit housing; lead-based paint has been forbidden for building painters since 1915, to all professionals since 1948, and to everyone since 1993. The risk of exposure to lead today is four times greater for buildings constructed before 1915 than for a building constructed between 1915 and 1948.
• 500,000 housing units were unclean.
• 200,000 students were in difficult financial situations, which has led young women to pay for their studies by selling their "services," e.g. by placing ads for prostitution on the Internet. This phenomenon is on the rise in the country (in 2006, the students' union SUD Etudiant estimated the number to be 40,000).^[5]

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Despite the positive developments, it seems that rural areas have been attracting more and more of those left behind; a non-negligible segment of at-risk city populations have been moving to the country and joining the ranks of small-time farmers among "rural" welfare recipients. This phenomenon is partly explained by the lower cost of rural living compared to the expense of city life.^[6]

Another indicator of poverty is the RMI. In 1994, in metropolitan France, the number of RMI recipients was 783,436; ten years later (in June 2004), it rose to 1,041,026. In the overseas departments, it was 105,033 at the end of 1994 and 152,892 in June 2004.^[7] By 31 December 2005, the figure stood at 1,112,400.^{[citation needed]} From December 2004 to December 2005, the number of RMI recipients increased by 4.7% according to the Secours catholique NGO.^[8] Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... Metropolitan France Metropolitan France (French: or la Métropole) is the part of France located in Europe, including Corsica (French: Corse). ... Dom may refer to: Dom people, an ethnic group in the middle east Domba or Dom people, an ethnic group of India Dom (mountain), a mountain in the Swiss Alps Dom, a title of respect – derived from Latin Dominus – for certain Benedictine and Carthusian monks, for example those of the...

Bidonvilles

Although poverty seems to have decreased overall, a form of extreme misery has reappeared in the 2000s. The media have attracted attention to bidonvilles (shanty towns), which were thought to have disappeared in the 1970s, with the transformation of Nanterre's bidonville into a modern city (at the end of the 1960s, there were 89 shanty towns on the outskirts of Paris, and 43% of French Algerians lived in bidonvilles in 1963, a year after the Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War^[9]). Such urban communities, without roads or public services (no electricity, one access point to water), are a reality for example in Villeurbanne (Lyon), where a bidonville contains 500 persons with Roma origins, a third of them being children.^[10][11][12] In February 2007, bulldozers destroyed a bidonville in Bobigny, near Paris, where 266 Romanian and Bulgarian citizens had been registered.^{[13][14][15][16]} Sha N BNMnty town in Manila, Philippines. ... Société Générale twin towers, located in Nanterre in the district of La Défense. ... This article is about the capital of France. ... -1... Combatants FLN (1954-62) MNA (1954-62) France (1954-62) FAF (1960-61) OAS (1961-62) Commanders Mostefa Benboulaïd Ferhat Abbas Hocine Aït Ahmed Ahmed Ben Bella Krim Belkacem Larbi Ben MHidi Rabah Bitat Mohamed Boudiaf Messali Hadj Jacques Massu Maurice Challe Said Boualam Pierre Lagaillarde Raoul... Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. ... Villeurbanne is a city and commune in eastern central France. ... This article is about the French city. ... Languages Romani, languages of native region Religions Christianity, Islam Related ethnic groups South Asians (Desi) The Roma (singular Rom; sometimes Rroma, Rrom) or Romanies are an ethnic group living in many communities all over the world. ... Bobigny is a town and commune of France, in the suburbs is of Paris, chief town of the arrondissement of the Seine-Saint-Denis. ...

Furthermore, bidonvilles are common in the overseas departments.^[17]

See also

• Abbé Pierre

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Footnotes

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References

• Report by the Conseil de l'emploi, des revenus et de la cohésion sociale (CERC), February 17, 2005 [1]
• April 2005 report on poverty in France by Emmaüs given by its president Martin Hirsch to the ministre des Solidarités, de la Santé et de la Famille Philippe Douste-Blazy

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Notes

• This article is based on the French Wikipedia article Pauvreté en France, retrieved February 15, 2007.

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External links

• (French) Seuils de pauvreté en France, sur le site de l'INSEE
• (French) Taux de pauvreté en France, sur le site de l'INSEE
• (French) Observatoire national de la pauvreté et de l’exclusion sociale
• (French) Observatoire des Inégalités, Données sur la pauvreté