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Published on Aug 30, 2011 by

Increasing numbers of French people are living in poverty and the country is suffering rising inequality, according to the latest figures from the French government.




The statistics cover 2009, the latest data available, when the economic crisis was starting to bite.




In that year 8.2 million people, out of a population of 60 million lived under the official poverty threshold of 954 euros per month.




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  • And yet they still import more and more migrants and there are not enough jobs for the French.

  • It's happening everywhere. Whatever happened to "Liberté, égalité, fraternité"

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  • @angelusp777 dont you mean socialist?

  • OH, WHAT A SURPRISE... :)

  • my best regards to France and Ce'st la vie =)

  • ah the rich get richer and the poor get poorer as always...

  • capitalist at its finest.

  • meh ! let them eat cake...

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