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"Work no longer protects against poverty". In a report, Secours Catholique alerts public opinion: more and more people welcomed by the association have a job, but their standard of living is below the poverty line, i.e. 670 euros per month. Their wages are not enough to pay the bills. They have a roof over their heads, but they cannot make ends meet and live in constant fear of the "fall", the one that will throw them into the street for lack of being able to pay the bills. Over-indebtedness and the housing crisis are the two major factors in this phenomenon... The alarm bells are ringing. Victims of the "threshold effect" (they earn too much to be helped, but not enough to get by!), the new poor are not helped by associations (they are not entitled to the Restaurants du Coeur for example), nor by the CAF. We have endeavored to describe the daily lives and world of those who agreed to testify with their faces uncovered in our document. This is the case of Christian, Maryvone and their children Kevin and Céline, who have been living for a year and a half in a campsite in Oise with only 30 m2. Christophe, Alexia and their little boy left Ain to settle in Marseille. They are forced to live in a furnished hotel room. Elizabeth is 37 years old and has three grown children. A young divorcee, she is looking for accommodation. Evicted from her house, she has to move into a campsite with her children. At 40, Thierry is an executive in Paris but he is forced to live in a homeless shelter while waiting to find accommodation in the capital. Authors: Corinne Langlois, Vincent Daudey