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Biel: The city with the highest social assistance rate (Swiss Stories 2015, by Chris Iseli) - Swiss Press Award

Chris Iseli
2nd place
Photo / Swiss Stories
2015

Biel: The city with the highest social assistance rate

Chris Iseli

The city of Biel has the highest number of welfare recipients in Switzerland. Around 80 per cent of the tax raised goes into the welfare system. This situation is reflected in the Madretsch area, not far from the city’s quaint old town and its hip city centre. A blogger from Biel writes: “This city only gets cool when you really get to know it.”

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Biel: The city with the highest social assistance rate

Aargauer Zeitung

2nd place
Photo / Swiss Stories
2015

Chris Iseli

The city of Biel has the highest number of welfare recipients in Switzerland. Around 80 per cent of the tax raised goes into the welfare system. This situation is reflected in the Madretsch area, not far from the city’s quaint old town and its hip city centre. A blogger from Biel writes: “This city only gets cool when you really get to know it.”

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Chris Iseli / Swiss Press Award

Chris Iseli

Fotograf, Lenzburg, 1979

Von 2006 bis 2007 Pressefotograf für die Neue Luzerner Zeitung. Ab 2008 bei der Aargauer Zeitung und die Schweiz am Sonntag. Ausgebildeter Fotofachmann.

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