Posted on 02/19/2015 12:08:50 PM PST by Olog-hai
Poverty levels in Germany have reached an all-time high, with 15.5 percent of the population—or 12.5 million people—affected. Single parents and unemployed people were the hardest hit, according to a report from a welfare association.
Over 40 percent of single parents and almost 60 percent of the unemployed are poor, according to the Paritätische Gesamtverband, an umbrella organization for associations focusing on social services.
Older people and retirees, around 15 percent of whom are considered poor, are the fastest growing demographic group in terms of poverty, according to the report released on Thursday.
One of the report authors, Christian Woltering, told The Local he felt deficient social policy was one of the main drivers of rising poverty numbers. …
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You don't say.
Limited number of jobs, unlimited immigration, what could go wrong?.
“Over 40 percent of single parents and almost 60 percent of the unemployed are poor”
I see a pattern here. Too bad the democrats are blind.
When my plant was still open we had electrical dept. union steward who was from Germany and he constantly raved about their free health care and welfare programs........Of course the working middle class and above were having the hell taxed out of them.
Democrats here? They’re zealots; that’s a form of blindness indeed.
Germany has a few parties calling themselves “democratic” (Social Democrats, Christian Democrats), so they’re up to their necks in that “democratic” ideal.
Can’t be any Auslanders in the Schengen Area. That wouldn’t be Europäisch.
Sorry, but if they are not German-Germans, then Erzatz Coffee.
“and almost 60 percent of the unemployed are poor”
In a socialized country, being unemployed and poor isn’t necessarily the same. It defies logic.
Well, that’s the kind of stuff the elite politicians in Berlin sold to their people. If they bought it, it’s on them, ersatz Kaffee or not.
One would think there were more poor in the early 1920s
Probably they are doing far better than they did in their country of origin.
But the leftist intellectual want them to make as much as the middle class thru handouts.
More than in the winter of 1945?
Well. For one liberals have redefined poverty so many times the word is meaningless. Second, in Germany a “poor” person working 10 hours a month in a coffee shop has the same “income” through welfare as someone who works full time as an engineer.
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