PS chairman Paul Magnette will defend the idea of a basic income for young people aged 18 to 25 in L’Avenir on Saturday. “I think that makes sense because there are more inequalities at that age and they will take shape over the rest of life,” Magnette said.
The president of the Parti Socialiste sees these inequalities “between those who can study and those who cannot, those who have to work to pay for their studies and those who do not have to, those who can do an internship for free and those who cannot afford, those who have a good salary and those who have a very low salary and so on.” The basic income for young people will “ideally” come to a European level, Magnette notes in L’Avenir. “Europe needs such mobilizing projects,” he concludes.
Magnette does not like the idea of a general basic income. “They say, ‘We’ll give you $1,000 whether you’re unemployed, retired or working and then you figure it out’. First, that’s well below the poverty line and therefore insufficient. It would be a general social regression, which is not surprising from the mouth of the MR Secondly, you give enormous power to the employers, who can say: ‘You already have 1,000 euros, I’ll give you another 500 and you have to save yourself to survive.’ ”
The formula of a basic income for young people seems more interesting to the PS chairman. He defends this idea in his own words in a book on ecosocialism, which he wrote with Hugues Bayet (federal MP for PS) and which will be published in October.
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