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Single parents, youth most affected by poverty in France
Poverty has increased over the past ten years in France, with the number living on less than 50% of the average salary rising from 4.4 million to 5 million people. The majority…
Macron to jobseeker: 'I can get you a job by crossing the street'
French President Emmanuel Macron was facing fresh criticism Sunday after telling an aspiring gardener that he could easily find a job if he would simply start looking in…
French jobseeker says Macron comment ‘hard to swallow’
The unemployed gardener who French President Emmanuel Macron said had only to "cross the road" to find a job described the controversial remarks Tuesday as "hard to swallow".
Macron outlines anti-poverty plan
FRANCE 24's Chris Moore reports in Paris on the details of Macron's anti-poverty plan. Macron announced a slew of measures Thursday to combat stubborn poverty in France, seeking…
Rivals jostle for power as Iraq parliament meets
Iraqi lawmakers convened Monday with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and a populist cleric together seeking to form a government and sideline pro-Iran rivals with a deal to create…
Business Daily
Apple soars to trillion dollar heights
Apple has made history once again – this time by becoming the world's first trillion dollar public company. It's a meteoric rise that would have been hard to predict just two…
Focus
So rich but so poor: Protests erupt in Iraq's oil-rich south
For the past three weeks, Iraq has been rocked by protests. They began in the southern province of Basra, home to over 70 percent of Iraq's oil reserves, and quickly spread to…
Reporters
Video: Maracaibo, the story of Venezuela's collapse
Maracaibo is the second-largest city in Venezuela. Its residents face soaring inflation, widespread poverty and shortages. Under Hugo Chavez, Venezuela based its economy on oil…
Macron shuns ‘new’ plan, wants more jobs to tackle deprived suburbs
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday said he would not announce a new plan to fix the country's poor suburbs but rather called on France’s biggest companies to do their…
Focus
Video: Italy faces stark North-South economic divide
In Italy, the failure to agree on a coalition government means there could be an unprecedented second general election in the same year. Whoever ends up leading the country will…
People And Profit
Is GDP the best way to measure an economy?
What is the best way to measure a country's economic health? We look at the alternatives to GDP with Margareta Drzeniek-Hanouz, head of the Future of Economic Progress at the…
People & Profit
The future of work: How the gig economy is changing the jobs market
As technology revolutionises the workplace and robots replace more and more human workers, what will hiring and firing be like in the future? Stephen Carroll talks to former HR…
People & Profit