{
  "id": 10914504,
  "title": "France faces historic purchasing power crisis: Since 2024, families have lost €1,200/year on average",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/30/france-faces-historic-purchasing-power-crisis-since-2024-families",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-30T09:28:57.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Le Monde English",
    "slug": "le-monde-english",
    "url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2026/09/30/france-faces-historic-purchasing-power-crisis-since-2024-families-have-lost-1-200-year-on-average_6758101_19.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Real wages have been falling since 2019 – a rare phenomenon – but, for a long time, social transfers and income from assets made up for it. In 2025 and 2026, that is no longer the case. As a result, average purchasing power fell over two consecutive years, something that only happened twice since 1960.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}