Citizens’ money is a re-entry into good social policy – opinion

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Heribert Prantl

The citizen income law is a good thing. Not only because it replaces the unspeakable term “Hartz IV” and all its corruptions, with which the unemployed have been insulted. The law is good because it introduces a new, better social policy. It ends a phase of almost thirty years in which social security was redefined to the disadvantage of a location and social benefits were criticized as social burdens that had to be shaken off.

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