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B-MINCOME - Combining guaranteed minimum income and active social policies in deprived urban areas Barcelona, Spain

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Urban poverty

Edit 19 September 2019

by Laura Colini, UIA Expert

B-MINCOME and the Guaranteed Minimum Income

In this first Zoom-in, Laura Colini, UIA Expert for B-MINCOME shows the approach taken by the project of combining the Guaranteed Minimum Income to different Active labour Market policy.

A closer look is given to the Community participation programme, whit whom B-MINCOME aims to involve the residents of the Besòs neighbourhood and improve their social relationships and interactions, employability, development of projects and decision making, social responsibility and contribution to the common good.

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