Support Blast, a new independent media: https://www.blast-info.fr/soutenir This is the government's preferred way to save money: reducing access to unemployment benefits and their amount. So after a first reform of unemployment insurance in 2017 and a second in 2019, Gabriel Attal has just announced a third. However, the devastating effects of the first two reforms are beginning to be measured. The French Economic Outlook Observatory (OFCE) has notably demonstrated that since their implementation, the latest reforms have reduced job security and precarious contracts have multiplied, all for a more than limited effectiveness in encouraging employment. The observatory concludes in a dedicated study: "experience shows that never has a social protection system been corrected in this way and raised so many doubts about its effectiveness. No theory suggests that supporting the redistribution policy instead of unemployment insurance better secures workers and benefits the functioning of the labor market. (...) the reform of the rules has created more problems than it has solved, so a serious overhaul seems more urgent than ever." As for the 2019 reform, DARES (which depends on the Ministry of Labor) produced a report to assess its consequences. The number of people entitled to benefits has fallen by 17%. And the first to be affected are young people and those in precarious situations. All this with reduced benefits, 26% of beneficiaries who opened a right under the new law received an allowance more than 10% lower than what they would have received under the old rules. As a result, among those who were already struggling to find a job, distress has increased. And the situation is not likely to improve with this third reform in six years! As early as the fall of 2023, two departments of the Ministry of Labor (responsible for evaluating the President's ideas) explained to the Élysée that this reform would be a bad idea, as revealed by Médiapart, which obtained this internal document! The DARES and the DGEFP assured that a shortening of the duration of compensation for job seekers would be "inopportune". The reform that Emmanuel Macron wants has even been quantified by the DARES, at the request of the Ministry of Labor. According to the calculations, this new reduction in the duration of compensation will precipitate "the end of rights of 400,000 additional beneficiaries over a year, thus leading to 100,000 additional switches to RSA or ASS". In short, almost no one among those who work on this issue thinks that it is a good idea. Neither the unions, nor the experts, nor even the government administration. So to justify such a breakdown of the social system, these are the same unfounded ideas that the government continues to rely on: to find a job, all you have to do is cross the street, and those who don't work don't really want to. These are economically and socially unfounded clichés, as big names in the economy like Esther Duflo keep reminding us. So in what ideological context is this new unemployment insurance reform taking place, what will change, how will it impact the lives of the most precarious, and above all why does the government persist in reforms that even its own administration no longer supports? Answer with Salomé Saqué in this new economic program for Blast. Journalist: Salomé Saqué Editing: Etienne Milliès-Lacroix Sound: Baptiste Veilhan Graphics: Morgane Sabouret, Diane Lataste Production: Hicham Tragha Program Director: Mathias Enthoven Editor-in-Chief: Soumaya Benaïssa Publication Director: Denis Robert Website: https://www.blast-info.fr/ Facebook: / blastofficiel Twitter: / blast_france Instagram: / blastofficiel Mastodon: https://mamot.fr/web/@blast_info Peertube: https://video.blast-info.fr/ Twitch: / blastinfo #Economy #Unemployment #Attal