On November 7, the Departmental Council presented the results of a study on poverty commissioned from INSEE by social action stakeholders.. “During the last decade, the poverty rate has fallen significantly, going from 52% in 2010 to less than 35% of the population living below the poverty line today, underlined Vice-President Augustine Romano. We needed to know which audiences are most affected, what are the social and economic mechanisms that cause our fellow citizens to fall into poverty or, on the contrary, let them come out. The study provides some answers. From one year to the next, 6% of adults fall into poverty and 7% come out of it. Exiting poverty occurs above all because we find or regain employment.. They are also frequently done at the end of professional life which results more often than elsewhere in the allocation of the minimum old age, the amount of which is higher than the other social minimums.
