The government needs to tackle social inequality
Dutch NewsThe coalition government should stop kowtowing to right-wing politicians and concentrate on tackling social inequality, say Leiden professor Leo Lucassen. While many people felt themselves to be on the right side of globalisation during the 1990s, the turn of the century has seen lower skilled people in particular experiencing the harsh winds of growing social inequality, a flexible labour market and drastically diminishing social housing. Inequality Instead of demanding structural measures to combat inequality parties like the PVV, and most recently, the FvD prefer the scapegoat strategy which presents the accommodation of refugees as a zero sum game: who is getting the job/affordable house, one of our own or the profiteering asylum seeker? If mainstream politicians are serious about tackling the social problems outlined here they must refuse to be drawn in by the scapegoating of the radical right and concentrate on the real causes of social inequality.
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The government needs to tackle social inequality
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