Pensioners account for more than a quarter of all poor people in Germany. Here, too, women are particularly affected with over 21 percent of all women over the age of 65 considered poor.

02/04/2023 February 4, 2023. Germany is one of the world's wealthiest nations. But a growing number of people live in poverty. The gulf between rich and poor is growing ever wider.

Poor getting poorer in Germany, ... The study by the German Parity Welfare Association found that 13 million people—nearly one in six Germans—are now living below the poverty line.

Proportion of very poor people with less than 50% of median income at their disposal rose 40% in a decade, according to research Oliver Towfigh Nia | 24.11.2022 - Update : 25.11.2022 BERLIN ...

Watching Germany's election campaign, pensioner Renate Krause finds it hard to stomach how some politicians speak about financially struggling people like her, an approach she calls "bashing the ...

Helping more people share in the benefits of economic prosperity would go a long way toward neutering support for radical political parties and cooling the anger now boiling over in Germany. Chris ...

Bielefeld, Germany, a modest city of 338,000 people, is in every way typical of a well-off German town, with an opera house, a castle and a tidy historic district.