Macron says France's welfare system is wasteful, urges reforms
By Richard LoughPARIS (Reuters) - France should stop plowing large amounts of cash into a welfare system that fails to rescue the poor from poverty, President Emmanuel Macron said in a video clip released by his office that critics said showed he was uncaring.The clip showed Macron discussing his ideas for revamping the welfare state with his communications team hours before a televised speech he was due to give on social benefit reform.People who are born poor stay poor," Macron said in the cli
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