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	Arbeitslosengeld II - Hartz IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Das Ziel von Hartz IV ist unter anderem, mehr Langzeitarbeitslose wieder in den Arbeitsmarkt einzugliedern.
		Milbradt wirft der Bundesregierung vor, Hartz IV "kommunikativ völlig falsch eingefädelt zu haben".
		Mit den von Bundestag und Bundesrat verabschiedeten Reformen von Hartz IV kam es seit 2005 zu schmerzhaften Einschnitten in der Arbeitslosenhilfe, was bei Gewerkschaften und Sozialverbänden auf Widerstand stößt.
	www.lpb.bwue.de /aktuell/hartz_iv.php3 (9178 words)

	Hartz concept - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The reforms of Hartz I - III took place between January 1, 2003 and 2004; Hartz IV began on January 1, 2005.
		The Hartz IV reform was voted in by the Bundestag on December 16 2003 and by the Bundesrat on July 9 2004.
		Several constitutional lawyers dispute the legality of the Hartz IV law; up to 10 paragraphs of Germany's constitution (Grundgesetz) may be violated.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hartz_IV (1010 words)

	PDS Social protest in Gremany Spectrezine
		In the focus of the protests is the so-called Hartz IV law, adopted in July, 2004 by all parliamentary parties except the PDS and due to come into force on 1 January, 2005.
		Hartz IV is an austerity program entitled to reduce social expenditure at the expense of the unemployed.
		Hartz IV is reducing mass purchasing power and domestic consumer demand, which is detrimental to growth rates of the German economy fuelled presently by exports alone.
	www.spectrezine.org /resist/PDS.htm (1361 words)

	Hartz IV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Die Betrachtung der vergangenen drei Jahrzehnte zeigt, dass der mit Hartz IV erhöhte Druck, auch schlecht bezahlte Arbeit anzunehmen, möglicherweise nicht genügen wird, um viele Menschen wieder in Arbeit zu bringen.
		Der Vorsitzende der Kommission für gesellschaftliche und soziale Fragen, Bischof Reinhard Marx (Trier), legte eine Bewertung der Hartz- Reformen I — IV“ vor.
		Hartz IV führt in Niedersachsen und Bremen zu Prozessflut
	www.kbwn.de /html/hartz_iv.html (9297 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| German benefit protests contained
		The labour reforms known as Hartz IV are aimed at cutting the number of jobless - currently 10.8% of the workforce - and boosting the economy.
		Hartz IV - the biggest overhaul of Germany's welfare system in decades - is expected to hit the long-term unemployed and the 2.7 million people who the Federal Labour Agency says have used up their benefits and now receive only minimum welfare payments.
		The launch of Hartz IV on 1 January was hampered by computer glitches.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/4142441.stm (381 words)

	Guardian \| What they said about ... Germany's Hartz IV
		The changes to unemployment law - nicknamed Hartz IV after their originator, the Volkswagen executive Peter Hartz - have cut benefits for those unwilling to work, but are intended to speed up job-hunting for others.
		Hartz IV attracted public protests when it was passed by the Bundestag, the German parliament, in the summer.
		Hartz IV would most affect the single unemployed and those with spouses in work, the paper continued.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5095869-103532,00.html (362 words)

	Germans look back in hunger to Hartz' content - World - theage.com.au
		The Hartz IV Cookbook cashes in on the misery gripping many, with tasty recipes for the hard-up using old bread, hard cheese and vegetables substituting for meat.
		Hartz IV slashed benefits and a welfare way of life no longer sustainable.
		Bars now advertise "Hartz IV Specials", along with cut-price drinks for those affected, and "geiz ist geil" - stinginess is cool - is the favourite saying on the streets.
	www.theage.com.au /news/World/Germans-look-back-in-hunger-to-Hartz-content/2005/05/06/1115092684535.html (472 words)

	Germany: Hartz IV measures begin to bite Cheap labour, harassment, massive cuts in jobless benefits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although the number no longer eligible for benefits at the beginning of the year was not as high as anticipated, the federal government still hopes to have reduced the number of long-term jobless receiving benefits by the end of the year by 23 percent.
		Two paragraphs in the Hartz IV Law are squarely aimed at this: first, through the consideration of income and financial assets, including those of other household members; second, through the enforcement of penalties.
		Provisions in Hartz IV declaring that rent assistance for the long-term unemployed will only be for “appropriate accommodation” will force many unemployed people out of their homes.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jan2005/germ-j21.shtml (2295 words)

	EZFF: Jahrbuch des Föderalismus: Jahrbücher: Band 7: Hartz IV
		One of the most interesting aspects of the „Fourth Act for modern services on the labour market“ („Hartz IV“) is the fact that it was conceptualized in parallel to the discussion in the joint commission of Bundestag und Bundesrat for a modernization of the German federalism.
		At the same time new kinds of fiscal entanglements were established with Hartz IV – especially between the „Bund“ and the local level which did not exist before.
		Scheller, Henrik 2006: Die Auswirkungen von Hartz IV auf die föderativen Finanzbeziehungen zwischen Bund und Ländern, in: Europäisches Zentrum für Föderalismus-Forschung (Hrsg.): Jahrbuch des Föderalismus 2006.
	www.uni-tuebingen.de /uni/qxf/jahrbuch2006_scheller.html (475 words)

	hartz und frauen
		Hartz IV und die Frauen: "Dieses Gesetz bezieht sich auf die Zusammenlegung von Arbeitslosen- und Sozialhilfe.
		Durch die Einführung von Hartz IV werden diese ab Januar unter den gleichen Bedingungen leben müssen wie Kinder von Sozialhilfeempfängern.
		Durch Hartz IV rückt das Thema Arbeitslosigkeit in das Zentrum der Gesellschaft.
	www.wloe.org /WLOE-de/aktion/aktiv/hartzundfrauen.html (523 words)

	Hartz IV - Essays und News
		Hartz IV Als Mittel gegen die Arbeitslosigkeit soll in Deutschland ab 2005 die staatliche Arbeitslosenhilfe auf Sozialhilfeniveau gesenkt und von verschärften Auflagen abhängig gemacht werden.
		Hartz IV und seine Alternativen - Eine Replik II Lutz von Lölhöffel
		Hartz IV und seine Alternativen - Eine Replik I
	www.dreigliederung.de /hartz-iv (118 words)

	Hartz IV, ALG II, Sozialhilfe, Arbeitslosengeld II 2, BAföG, Grundsicherung (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Eines der häufigsten Themen der Hartz IV Problematik ist das der Versicherungen.
		Januar 2005 traten die Hartz IV Gesetze in Kraft - Rechtsnormen, die tief in die Wurzeln der Bundesrepublik Deutschland eingriffen: Zum ersten Mal in ihrer Geschichte wurde ein kompletter Zweig des überkommenen Sozialstaats - die aus Steuermitteln finanzierte Arbeitslosenhilfe - abgeschafft.
		Zu verschiedenen Hartz IV Themen hat das Bundessozialgericht nun eine Entscheidung getroffen, insbesondere zu den Fragen der angemessenen Wohnungsgröße und Wohnungskosten.
	www.sozialhilfe24.de (4458 words)

	Weekly Worker 544 - Thursday September 16 2004
		Hartz IV is part of the far wider reaching ‘reform package’, Agenda 2010, of the Social Democratic government.
		As Germany is one of the seven countries in the European Union without a statutory minimum wage, Hartz IV could result in salaries being massively driven down across the board.
		In fact, the fight against Hartz IV has revived the party’s flagging fortunes: After the 2003 parliamentary elections, the PDS was left with only two directly elected MPs in the Bundestag, after having failed to reach the 5% threshold.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/544/hartz.htm (1247 words)

	Hartz IV: Failing SPD Shocks Germany with Schachtian Cuts
		With the Hartz IV package, the new standard pay for all long-term unemployed (12 months or more out of work) and welfare recipients will be only 345 euros a month for citizens in the 10 western states and the capital Berlin, whereas citizens in the five eastern states will receive 331 euros.
		Officially, a half million of the 2.3 million long-term unemployed in Germany are believed to have enough property of their own not to be eligible for the Hartz IV pay for at least one or two years; i.e., they would be cut off entirely until they completely impoverish themselves.
		Very simple: Because the EU policy, with its Stability Pact and Treaty of Maastricht, and the Hartz IV policies of the Berlin government, fully supported by the opposition, are economically insane and criminal in social terms.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2004/3128hartz_iv.html (1284 words)

	Attac - Nein zu Hartz! Nein zur Verarmung von Arbeitslosen!
		Hartz IV fordert Arbeit um jeden Preis – auch ohne Bezahlung.
		Bis in die Mittelschichten hinein schürt Hartz IV Angst vor Erwerbslosigkeit und sozialem Abstieg.
		Attac ruft seine Mitglieder, Freunde und Freundinnen auf, lokal und regional mit anderen demokratischen Kräften gegen Hartz IV usammenzuarbeiten.
	www.attac.de /hartz (644 words)

	Ifo Institute \| Ifo Viewpoint No. 58: Hartz V (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After Hartz IV there ought to come Hartz V, for, courageous as it may be, the reform does have shortcomings.
		The politicians are attempting to tackle the problem of excessive wage demands with the so-called one-euro jobs: those who reject a suitable one-euro job may see their benefits reduced by 30% as a first step.
		There are no objections to using for it the name Hartz V, given that Hartz IV itself has more to do with the Ifo model than with the recommendations of the Hartz Commission.
	www.ifo.de /portal/page?_pageid=36,102910&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&item_link=stp058.htm (988 words)

	Hartz IV und Hartz 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Das Hartz Paket fand dann in die Agenda 2010 der Bundesregierung Eingang und wurde schrittweise umgesetzt.
		Die schrittweise Umsetzung erfolgte in verschiedenen Gesetzespaketen, die die Bezeichnungen Hartz I, Hartz II, Hartz III und Hartz IV 4 erhielten.
		Heute ist der Begriff Hartz IV in aller Munde.
	www.sozialhilfe24.de /hartz_4.php (1931 words)

	Germany: Which way forward in the struggle against Hartz IV? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Those demonstrating against Hartz IV are demanding more than mere cosmetic changes to this latest piece of anti-social legislation.
		Hartz IV is the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back.
		The economic minister for Berlin, Harald Wolf (PDS), explicitly supports essential elements of Hartz IV, while his party colleague Helmut Holter, as labour minister in the state of Mecklenburg-Pommerania, personally supervises the implementation of the cuts.
	www.wsws.org /articles/testdir/aug2004/hrtz-a21_prn.shtml (1625 words)

	MLPD Info -= Where is the Movement of Monday Demonstrations Heading? =- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is the social destitution through Hartz IV that creates a breeding-ground for these hatemongers.
		Hartz IV does not change the core of the problem, that is, mass unemployment.
		It is precisely laws like Hartz IV that pave the ground for the influence of the Neonazis.
	www.mlpd.de /mlpd-info-2004-09-08us.htm (1293 words)

	Dialog International: Peter Hartz and Hartz IV
		Peter Hartz and Hartz IV Mark Landler has a good profile of the man behind the reform commission in Germany in today's New York Times.
		The so-called Hartz IV measures, which take effect in January, are intended to force the chronically unemployed back into the labor force.
		No, Hartz was able to eliminate 2,500 jobs at a steel mill, and that attracted the attention of Volkswagen.
	dialoginternational.typepad.com /dialog_international/2004/11/peter_hartz_and.html (464 words)

	Amazon.de: Hartz IV. Eine Abrechnung: Bücher: Gabriele Gillen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hartz IV markiert die Wende vom Sozialstaat zum Almosenstaat.
		Januar 2004 folgt "Hartz III", die gesetzliche Grundlage für den Umbau der Nürnberger Bundesanstalt für Arbeit zu einem richtig effektiven Unternehmen.
		Januar 2004, Hartz III ist schon in Kraft, wird Florian Gerster entlassen.
	www.amazon.de /Hartz-Eine-Abrechnung-Gabriele-Gillen/dp/3499620448 (1611 words)

	Hartz IV wird die Kosten der Arbeitslosigkeit minimieren.
		Hartz IV wird die Kosten der Arbeitslosigkeit minimieren.
		Gleichzeitig mit dem Hartz IV -Gesetz treten weitere Gesetze in Kraft, mit denen die persönliche Freiheit des Einzelnen eingeschränkt wird.
		Nach dem Konzept von Hartz IV müssen nicht nur die Empfänger von Sozialleistungen möglichst schnell vermittelt oder qualifiziert werden.
	www.storyal.de /story2004/hartz.htm (1516 words)

	Iran Daily - International Economy - 06/28/05
		A protester holds a banner which reads "Marx instead of Hartz IV" during a protest against the so-called Hartz IV reforms, during a march in Berlin.
		The reforms, known as Hartz IV, were introduced on January 1 by the government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, who runs the risk of paying a heavy price for the unpopularity generated by them.
		“Hartz IV is not a program to stimulate the economy but a program to rehabilitate a certain group,“ said Ruediger Pohl, economics professor at Halle University.
	www.iran-daily.com /1384/2310/html/ieconomy.htm (1934 words)

	PolitiquesSociales.net - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The scene is replicated in 180 job-centres across Germany: thousands of staff are working extra shifts to prepare the launch on January 1st of “Hartz IV”.
		This law, based on the work of a commission led by Peter Hartz, Volkswagen's personnel director, is Germany's most important labour-market reform since the war.
		If Hartz IV succeeds, Germany will have taken a big step towards helping its army of long-term unemployed off the dole and into work.
	www.politiquessociales.net /Docs/hartzandminds.htm (806 words)

	Hartz IV, und ein Kind mit Lebenswillen, was seines Gleichen sucht. Unerschütterlich, Mutig und doch so Hilflos !! - ...
		Hartz IV, und ein Kind mit Lebenswillen, was seines Gleichen sucht.
		We endorse the Hartz IV, und ein Kind mit Lebenswillen, was seines Gleichen sucht.
		Read the Hartz IV, und ein Kind mit Lebenswillen, was seines Gleichen sucht.
	www.petitiononline.com /mod_perl/signed.cgi?HartzIV&51 (171 words)

	Hartz IV, Hartz 4, Hartz Konzept Arbeitslosengeld 2
		Seit in Kraft treten des Hartz IV-Gesetzes arbeiten in einem Großteil der Städte und Gemeinden Arbeitsagenturen und Kommunen zusammen und bilden sog.
		Außerdem sind sie nach Hartz IV auf Basis des Mindestbeitrages in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung versichert.
		Ratgeber Hartz IV Ratgeber Hartz IV Der aktuelle Ratgeber Hartz IV gibt Ihnen Antworten auf ausgewählte Fragestellungen des Sozialrechts.
	www.foerderland.de /293.0.html (2439 words)

	"Hartz IV" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hartz IV "Hartz IV" - economic salvation or massive cutback in welfare benefits?
		The law on the merger of unemployment and welfare benefits, known as "Hartz IV " will come into force on 1 January 2005.
		Experts in social policy have demanded this move for years, but there is massive uncertainty about the repercussions of this reform.
	www.westlb.de /cms/sitecontent/westlb/equity_markets/en/conffolder/conferences_archive/hartz_iv_152580.standard.gid-N2FkNDZmMzU4OWFmYTIyMWM3N2Q2N2Q0YmU1NmI0OGU_.html (132 words)

	Hartz IV
		Hartz IV Hartz IV home archiv suche rss zeit.de Zeit.de Weblogs
		Der Regisseur ist Peter Hartz, Sie wissen schon, der Mann von VW mit den brasilianischen Mädchen.
		Mein Leben ohne Hartz bereitet sich vor, ich kann kaum sagen, wie befreiend es sich noch anfühlt, aus dieser Zange ins Nichts zu springen.
	blogg.zeit.de /hartz (1776 words)

	Hartz IV
		Januar 2005 ist das "Vierte Gesetz für moderne Dienstleistungen am Arbeitsmarkt" in Kraft, auch Hartz IV genannt.
		Die Zielrichtung des Gesetzes haben seine Urheber kurz mit "Fördern und Fordern" beschrieben, die Wiedereingliederung von Langzeitarbeitslosen in den Arbeitsmarkt soll damit in Angriff genommen werden.
		Hartz IV schafft Arbeitslosen- und Sozialhilfe ab, stattdessen wird Bedürftigen das so genannte "Arbeitslosengeld II" (ALG II) gezahlt.
	www.dgb.de /themen/hartz/umsetzung/hartz4/index_html (107 words)

	MLPD Info - Mass Protests against "Hartz IV" and the Federal Government -August 17th (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It means: expropriation of the unemployed and their families, mass poverty especially of women and families with children, degradation and revelation of personal data adverse to data privacy protection, enforced eviction of people from their houses, forcing people to accept any job on any terms.
		As a core of the crisis program of the Berlin government, called "Agenda 2010," the Hartz IV law is an essential step of the government to change the state into a service provider of the international monopolies.
		A successful struggle for the withdrawal of Hartz IV and the fall of the federal government through a mass struggle would be an encouraging signal of an upswing of the workers' and peoples' struggles in Europe and beyond.
	www.mlpd.de /mlpd-info-2004-08-17-us.htm (1022 words)

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