What can politics do against long-term unemployment?
Above all, Green candidate Annalena Baerbock (40) and Union opponent Armin Laschet (60) grappled with this at the Triell am Sonntag – while SPD candidate Olaf Scholz (63) pretended to have dealt with the 2010 reform agenda under red Green had nothing to do.
The fact is: The Greens want to increase the standard rate by 50 euros and abolish sanctions for Hartz IV recipients. The support should “be paid out automatically in the future,” said Baerbock on TV.
Laschet accused her of preferring to distribute tax gifts to the “super-rich” rather than “lifting children out of poverty”.
The SPD is also planning higher Hartz IV standard rates and wants to abolish “senseless and unworthy sanctions”.
Laschet was tough at the Trielli! “Hartz IV is not a job. We have to help people out of receiving social assistance. “
Motto: Jobs, not unconditional support from the state, are the best means against poverty. Child poverty too!
Will Hartz IV sanctions abolish: Green candidate Annalena Baerbock (40): “Aid should be paid out automatically in the future”Photo: Getty Images
In fact, pressure from the job center can help so that recipients of help can find their way back to work, says Holger Schäfer (52) from the Cologne Institute for the German Economy: “Sanctions work,” Schäfer told BILD: “Those who are sanctioned return to the job market more often.”
Camp fight for Hartz IV!
Laschet’s shadow minister Friedrich Merz (65, CDU) is on the Laschet line! Hartz IV is “not a job title, but transitional aid in the labor market so that people can stand on their own two feet”.
CDU General Paul Ziemiak (36) criticizes that the SPD is saying goodbye to “the principle of promoting and demanding”. The Union, on the other hand, wants to “get people into good work and not park in the social system”.
SPD candidate Olaf Scholz (63)Photo: Bernd Weißbrod / dpa
SPD politician Ralf Stegner (61) sees it very differently. He accuses Union candidate Laschet of being “against higher minimum wages and everything that can do good work”.
SPD General Lars Klingbeil (43) to BILD: “If you don’t already have enough money, you simply fall through the grid with the Union.”
Green social expert Sven Lehmann (41) criticizes the Hartz IV policy of the GroKo as “unrealistic” and calls for a “dignified guarantee”.