# Macron’s ‘trickle-down economics’: French poverty at a decades-high level as hunger rises

https://mins.news/en/video/101344

- France 24 English, 2026-10-15 11:40 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMB5fNnqiTM

> Oxfam France advocacy director Nicolas Vercken discusses scrutiny of tax inequality in France. The organization is challenging the state over its constitutional obligations. Vercken says the issue is not simply the tax rate or burden, but who is taxed and what the revenue is used for.

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