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"EU ministers for social affairs have acknowledged that 120 million European citizens live below the poverty line. Compared to the statistics dating from before the economic crisis was unleashed, we are facing in the EU a 50% rise in the number of poor in just two years. The recession has exacerbated a steady trend during the last decade: the number of women affected by poverty is much higher than that for men. Unemployment, working in unsafe conditions, pension levels lower than the minimum subsistence income and difficulties in accessing decent public services are some of the main causes of the state of poverty whose nature justifies us talking about the feminisation of poverty in Europe. Unfortunately, numerous right-wing governments have abandoned their policies combating the gender gap, under the pretext of the recession. The budgets for care services and leave provision have been particularly hard hit, which has serious, adverse repercussions, including on children. As we reach the halfway point in the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, the assessment is negative. In fact, the future looks gloomy when there is little time devoted, both at government level in many Member States and at European institution level, to the concern for, and the desire to improve, the lives of those hardest hit among our fellow human beings."@en1
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