The right-wing majority Senate rejected this Wednesday evening a PS bill aimed at extending the RSA to 18-25 year olds to respond to the
“social emergency”
of unemployed young people whose precariousness has been worsened by the Covid crisis -19.
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Only the left voted in favor of the text carried by the youngest of the Senate, Rémi Cardon.
"This outright rejection sounds like a slap in the face to the thousands of young French people who have to face the social and economic crisis which hits them particularly hard,"
the PS group said in a statement.
“Young people are on the front lines of this crisis.
They serve as the first adjustment variable among employers, "
argued Rémi Cardon, stressing that in France,
" one in five young people under 25 live below the poverty line, i.e. more than 1.5 million. of young people ”
.
This text was according to him
"to constitute the first brick of an overall approach for youth"
.
For PS rapporteur Monique Lubin, he brought
"A concrete and rapidly applicable solution to situations of poverty of young adults"
.
The government not favorable
Adrien Taquet, Secretary of State for Children and Families, recalled that the government was
"not in favor"
of opening the Income of Active Solidarity from the age of majority.
"It is not simply by allowing young people aged 18 to 25 to have access to RSA that we will fight effectively against youth poverty, but by creating, we are convinced, the conditions for better social integration. and professional ”
, he developed, referring in particular to
“ the increase in support measures towards employment ”
, in particular the Youth Guarantee.
"Can society accept that the soup kitchen is the horizon of some of the youth?"
, had launched the leader of the Socialist senators, Patrick Kanner, this Wednesday morning in front of the parliamentary press.
"I have never been in favor of extending the RSA to those under 25"
,
"but if I have changed my mind, it is because there is fire"
in the face of
"distress"
of a large part of the youth, he had developed, defending
"a logic of interpellation"
.
"More than a net, we need a springboard,"
Agnès Canayer (LR) said on the right.
"Only support will enable young people (...) to find their place in society"
, she continued, pleading in favor of the development of the Youth Guarantee.
