Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
elderly people
gap poor and rich
generation difference
poverty
SCP
Friday, 29 March 2013 - 08:14
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Rich-Poor Gap Grows

According to a study of the Citizen Perspectives of the Social and Cultural Planning Office (SCP), many older people think that in the Netherlands the difference between the rich and poor has grown too big. The report, presented on Friday, also states that in the last quarter, people older than 55 (42% of respondents) believe that their financial position in the coming years will deteriorate than do young people (17%). Older people (nearly 75%) also think that the difference between the rich and the poor in the Netherlands has grown too large. That view is shared by about 50% of the people between 18 and 34 years. Moreover, the elderly complain about an unfair distribution of the cuts, that too much power has gone to Brussels and that they are not heard by politicians. More Dutch respondents, than in the previous quarter, say that the difference between the rich and the poor has grown too big. The researchers emphasize, however, that in the fourth quarter people were actually very positive, so the difference is not very surprising.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Life sentenced prisoners will get additional year for reintegration
  • GroenLinks members trim list for Senate election after congress
  • Possible passenger ceiling at Schiphol again due to staff shortage, travel agency angry
  • PvdA and GroenLinks in Brabant: only together in provincial government
  • Human trafficking near asylum seekers’ center in Gilze systematically not picked up
  • 20-year-old driver from Utrecht dies in car accident on A6

Top stories

  • Possible passenger ceiling at Schiphol again due to staff shortage, travel agency angry
  • Hoekstra wants to reintroduce conscription
  • EU countries agree on new price cap for Russian oil
  • Hermitage shows Rembrandt and contemporaries from The Leiden Collection
  • Dutch police take down Exclu encrypted chat service with 42 arrests, €4 million seized
  • Signal failure briefly halts train traffic around A'dam; NS warns of significant delays

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content