Social security must be sustainable, Pope says
April 03, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: At an April 3 meeting with Italian political officials, Pope Francis said that social-security programs should be fair to future generations as well as to current recipients.
A sustainable system of social security, the Pope said, “responds to the principle that it is unfair to impose irreversible and too heavy burdens on young people.” He said that a healthy system should be a form of welfare assistance that keeps “different generations together.”
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