Can you ever escape your social class?
Can you ever escape your social class?
Shame signs the writing of the French Édouard Louis. Willfully, he left his Northern French working class environment because he couldn't stay there as a homosexual, but really wants to escape his ancestry and cannot. His last book deals with his mother's life. He's seemingly showing us a Hollywood fairy tale, but we believe? Can you hold an individual accountable for one's own happiness? The personal is politics for Édouard Louis.
I, Daniel Blake
59-year-old Daniel Blake earns his living as a carpenter. Until he has a heart attack and has to call on the state for the first time in his life. He tries to navigate his way through the impersonal and bureaucratic benefit system. In doing so, he meets single mom Katie and her two children. They support each other and find their dignity together. As we are used to from Loach, he takes up for the common man who has to stand up in today's England. Humor, warmth and despair go hand in hand and make I, DANIEL BLAKE a sincere, emotional and most endearing film.
Poverty in the Netherlands 21 May 2021
Last year, 6.2% of Dutch people were part of a household living below the so-called 'low income limit', compared to 6.3% in 2018. CBS figures show that. Poverty risk has been fluctuating around the same percentage for four consecutive years. Poverty is not having sufficient financial opportunities for the minimum necessary goods and facilities. Someone is poor when they have insufficient income for food, for example, a good home. In 2019, just over 1 million people lived in a household below the low income limit, 398 thousand for at least 4 years in a row.
In 2019, just over 1 million people lived in a household below the low income limit, 398 thousand for at least 4 years in a row.
Everyone wants a master. But is society waiting for that?
Crowded lecture halls, in line for the sorority and a huge workload for teachers. Every year, the number of students is increasing. Did we get smarter or college easier? What else is a degree worth, if everyone has a master's? And is society waiting for all the higher educated?
Only 3% of the technical professionals in the Netherlands are currently a woman and Techniek Nederland wants to do something about that. . The shortage of plumbers and other people with technical training is increasing dizzyingly rapidly in our country.
