https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_2010 > Beginning in 2005, however, unemployment figures began falling and, in Ma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_2010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_2010 > Beginning in 2005, however, unemployment figures began falling and, in May 2007, unemployment was at 3.8 million people, a 5½ year low. > As of 2008, the wage share of national income had been cut to a 50-year low of only 64.5%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartz_concept The SPD went from being the senior partner in the governing coalition to being the junior one after the next election. The reforms were not rolled back.