The Zero Long-Term Unemployment Territory experiment. A broken promise?[L’expérimentation Territoire zéro chômeur de longue durée. Une promesse malmenée ?]

The TZCLD project (Zero Long-Term Unemployment Territory experiment) is subject to a multitude of assessments that complicate its deployment. To show that "it works," the criteria for access to the experiment have been tightened, forcing regions to undergo a long and costly incubation period before being approved. In addition, priority is increasingly being given to employment opportunities in one of the region's programs, to the detriment of hiring in EBEs, reviving the traditional reflexes of employment support. The requirements for the EBE economic model have also given rise to a worrying shift: by forcing them to focus on short-term profitability, the development of activities with PPDEs has often been sidelined in favor of activities that generate rapid turnover, far removed from the original emancipatory project. Overall, TZCLD aims, through its promise of guaranteed employment, to achieve emancipation in and through work, which could be accompanied by democratic virtues, but which the obstacles associated with difficult implementation are struggling to allow to emerge.