The poverty rate in Germany in the pandemic year 2021 reached 16.6 percent of the population, a new record. This means there are 13.8 living in poverty, 600,000 more than before the pandemic began.

Germany's demographic time bomb is compounded by the fact that those children who are born increasingly grow up in impoverished families hampered by a lack of education, bad nutrition, and poor ...

The pandemic has dramatically worsened the poverty of millions of Germans. This is the message of this year’s report of the German Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband (Paritätische Welfare ...

What steps does it plan to take to address the growing number of children in Germany living in households at risk of poverty and social exclusion?

In fact, a poor American kid is much less likely to escape poverty in adulthood than a poor kid in Denmark or Germany or the United Kingdom.