Tidölaget's strategy is to, after a short time, lower the unemployment fund by 5% every 100 days until it reaches a bottom of SEK 8030 before tax per month. This contrasts with the needs of the long-term unemployed. These are often functionally varied often functionally varied or long-term ill and cannot cope with the low-wage jobs the government advocates to solve...
Category: Child poverty
Visitation zones instead of competitiveness
In visitation zones, the police must be able to stop and search people without having a specific suspicion of crime. The idea is that it will make the streets safer, but many are against it. Critics believe that it can lead to abuse and violations of people's rights. This is especially true if it is used against certain groups based on skin color…
Protests against forced custody of children - the reality
In 2022, an influence campaign was spread against Sweden, known as the LVU campaign, which claimed that the social service kidnaps Muslim children. This campaign contributed to an increased terrorist threat level in the country. Dagens Nyheter (DN) has reviewed the LVU campaign's claims and found a different reality. The LVU campaign was spread from Gothenburg and went international. It claimed that Swedish social services targeted Muslim children,…
Why should we not say loans about government deficits
It is the term loan that is so misleading and could be misused to borrow from capitalists or abroad. Technically, it is not a loan either. The state can request that the people do the best they can and the state must help the people according to its ability. Then the state directs or helps the people by creating money…
Neither demonizing nor releasing the right-wing extremists helps
Of course, it is important not to demonize any political movement, including far-right groups. But helping more extreme right-wing politics by inviting discontent parties on the extreme edge of the right, as The Economist advocates on 2023-09-14 in the editorial "The EU's liberals need better ways to deal with populists" solves nothing. Too often, the right-wing extremists are too…
Housing allowance and class gaps
Did we want to reduce economic differences in a simple way? Then we were able to ensure that a generous housing allowance was paid to most ordinary low- and middle-income earners. With a normal/high cost of living and a monthly salary of no more than 30 before tax as a single person, you would receive a full allowance. Are you married, cohabiting, have one or more...
Family debts often cause crime
The austerity policy since the 1970s means that more and more children are growing up in financially indebted or vulnerable households. This is a major reason for juvenile delinquency. Poverty is the culprit that should be addressed with measures for equality. In the debate about gang crime, the government, with few political opponents, has chosen to take a harder line. Through a new investigation, they want to…
The truth about immigration
A conservative view is that a country can either have a sustainable welfare state or high levels of immigration. But that view is wrong. The fact is that we can achieve both a well-functioning welfare state and increased immigration. By using progressive taxes and government deficits to invest in making everyone in society feel good…
He who is in debt is not free - the untrue myth about Göran Persson and his heroic glory
"He who is in debt is not free." Göran Persson's trip to New York to ask for a loan and implement cutbacks has become a destructive and untrue myth in Swedish politics. But the story about the crisis in the 1990s and the need for budget consolidation is not correct. This is written by researchers Niklas Altermark, Max Jerneck and Elisabeth...
The right thinks the poor should eat less
Poor people should eat less. At the same time, 500 people in Sweden cannot afford basic expenses and certainly no greed inflation. In 000, 2022% of households lacked a buffer for unforeseen expenses. But the right's solution to inflation is that low-income earners should reduce their consumption of electricity, heat and food. Therefore, many Swedes now have to lower the temperature...