Employment, unemployment ... Words and figures no longer reflect reality

Even if it means denouncing an entire population, you might as well give the exact number!

Regretting the climate of mistrust that reigns in the country, Emmanuel Macron vilified last week

"a nation of 66 million prosecutors (sic)"

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The French are actually 67.4 million (as of January 1, 2021), the official assessment by INSEE published two days before the head of state's shattering formula.

We want to strike the mind with a projection, at the risk of approximation.

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What is the reality of unemployment in France today and its extent?

It is undoubtedly dramatic for the millions of people who experience it.

When economic activity collapses by 9% to 10% over the whole of 2020 and it remains at this low water level, we suspect the violence of the shock on employment.

While the active population is 29.2 million people, including about 6 million in the public service, Bercy sounded the alarm last summer by providing for

"the elimination of 800,000 jobs".

This prognosis

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