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November 5 strike: more than 9.8 million French under the poverty line
The purchasing power and the precariousness are also the struggles brought on this Thursday 5 November, day of inter-union strike. In France, according to INSEE, 9.8% of French people are below the poverty line (2024). Social justice is called for, in solution, the demonstrators propose the taxation of the ultra-rich. The Secours populaire, claims that 26 per cent of French people feel they are in a precarious situation.