Like the first rains in autumn after the sunny weather of August, bad news have beaten down on Angers on Thursday in the local medias. These affect both households and companies. Regarding households, according to indicators displayed during the last meeting of the municipal council, their average income is under the national average income (1 413 € per month in Angers and 1 530 € nation wide). And the increase of unemployment during the last twelve months has been rather dramatic : the number of persons who have never worked was 9 000 on June 2012, that's 10% more than the previous year.
On the same day, the new manager of Strego, a chartered accountants office, said that the private companies are, one more time, hit by a crisis (the former was in 2009) : "The order books are shrinking and the cash flow problems are growing. They pay later, so they cash later. It's the infernal spiral". Today, he said, the crisis is hitting the building sector where the number of building permits are lowering. On the same day, the chairman of the local building federation warned about the consequences of the low level of sales in the city. "It's in the private real-estate development that there is a problem" pointing out "Without new fiscal aids, breakage is ahead".
At the lowest level of the scale, the communities helping homeless complain they have no more blankets. Fifty persons are found daily in Angers streets in desperate need of help. And the winter has not yet arrived... (Credit Pictures : Angers Développement, Angers CCAS)
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