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What if you salary does not get paid?

Posted by admin under Disposable Income, Getting By In Israel, Poverty in Israel, Social Justice, Solutions to Poverty, Unemployment, What can THEY do

There is a lot in this blog about “poverty”. It almost exclusively revolves around not having enough to pay the bills. Lack of food, heat, clothing, the usual stuff.

Well, what happens when someone’s salary does not get paid on time? In better economies there is enough left at the end of the month to “put something away for a rainy day”. In Israel however that, for the most part, is not possible. The vast majority of the population lives from hand to mouth. What then?

That is not a simple question. As can be imagined, if someone skips a deposit in the bank, life can get pretty messy when there is no cushion available.

This of course brings up the issue of the VERY URGENT need to improve the economic system in Israel to allow for such contingencies.