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Charity sounds alarm on poverty risk for one in five French people

A woman shops in a supermarket in Toulouse, southwestern France on September 4, 2023. AFP - CHARLY TRIBALLEAU

Nearly one in five French people are living in debt, a survey published Wednesday by the charity Secours Populaire has found – warning that hunger is becoming “a major issue”.

In its annual assessment that coincides with the launch of a so-called “Poverty Precarity” campaign, Secours Populaire said the bank accounts of 18 percent of French people were in arrears.

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