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Burkhalter calls for joint efforts on poverty

This content was published on Nov 9, 2010 Speaking at a one-day national conference in Bern, Burkhalter said that to be poor meant a person suffered from a feeling of being marginalised by society. “Today we want to lay the foundation for a more efficient battle against poverty,” said Burkhalter at the start of Tuesday’s conference. He announced that the government had two…