Emmanuel Macron expressed on Thursday, during an improvised exchange with young people in Paris, his opposition to a universal income for students, although he recognizes that there are “too many students in a precarious situation.”
“I believe in the qualification of studies to have a job and I believe, behind that, in work. And one of the problems we have today in our country is that we also have a whole generation that has had an RSA (active solidarity income). ), writes the editor. note) and that he still cannot go to work or that he has gotten out of the habit of going to work,” he explained.
Develop studies in cheaper cities
“Because today we also distribute many scholarships to students who do not go (to the exams, ed.). In the queues to receive food aid we also have many foreign students,” he argued.
But, he admitted, “there are still too many students who find themselves in precarious circumstances, especially in big cities where housing is expensive.”
I hoped “one, that we help develop studies in cities where it is cheaper. Second, that we finally have the answer – this is where we are not good – on student accommodation. We need to lower the price of student accommodation. Third, We need to have student jobs, when necessary, adapted to studies.
“The government does not set prices”
In an article published in Le Monde, fourteen university rectors asked in September for the creation of a “study subsidy for all students”, in order to “stop poverty”, facilitate “the development of autonomy” of young people and their access to higher education.
The Head of State was also questioned by a young man about “increasingly expensive purchases.” “They tell us to lower the heating but they take private jets, it’s nonsense,” the student loses his temper.
A young man, requested by the president, then offers an explanation about the reasons for the urban riots of late June and early July. “Why did they do that? Because they grow up in neighborhoods where there is nothing,” he said, referring to the situation in his town of Clichy-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis).
Source: BFM TV
