Memo: Minimum income: adequate schemes necessary to combat poverty

Well-designed adequate income support schemes can be powerful tools to fight poverty and increase labour market participation, and therefore contribute to reaching the Europe 2020 target of reducing the number of people in poverty and social exclusion by at least 20 million by 2020.

This was the main conclusion of the conference on "Addressing social divergences in European societies: improving minimum income support" organised by the European Commission on 3 April 2014.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Improving minimum income support http://www.europeansources.info/record/speech-improving-minimum-income-support/

ESO: Background information: Q&A: Taking stock of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth http://www.europeansources.info/record/memo-qa-taking-stock-of-the-europe-2020-strategy-for-smart-sustainable-and-inclusive-growth/

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