A person asks for financial help with a sign saying "For food" in Moenckebergstraße, which is decorated for Christmas. Due to high rents and related housing costs, more people in Germany are living in ...

More and more households in Germany are affected by poverty. One of the main reasons for this is the rapid rise in rents. According to a study by the Paritätischer Welfare Association, which, unlike ...

The poverty rate in Germany reached a new high of 16.6 percent of the population in 2021. According to the Poverty Report 2022 of the Paritätischer Gesamtverband charity association, entitled “Between ...

I can’t afford to properly feed my children. It’s a bitter feeling when all we have at the end of the month is bread and butter … It tears you apart. I feel like I’m not doing justice to anyone, not ...

Poverty in Germany is seldom visible, but the consequences for those affected are dramatic. For example, poverty dramatically increases the risk of death, as shown by the evaluation of large data sets ...