Isn't it amazing how numbers can be fiddled.
Isn't it amazing how we are supposed to have the smallest growth in the EU but we are doing the second best when needed.
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Germany's poor hold key to election as inequality grows
From the country doing the best in the EU. 1 in 6 lives in poverty. Tax rules make the rich richer and the poor poorer. 40% of Germans don't have any savings. Worse than countries like Hungary and Cyprus. Poverty has gone up in the last year in 11 of the 16 states. Nearly 50% of single parent families live in poverty. Yet we hear the excuses on why the top parties in Germany have lost millions of votes.
Some on here say we should help the poor countries of the EU. I say charity begins at home. Yes do help others. But not at the expense of your own people. French farmers became rich because of the EU. That is how Maggie got our rebate that we still have now. Billions each year goes missing in Italy and has dine for years. What has been dine about it? Yet the countries pumping billions in each year to this have their own poverty that is kept hidden. Look at the Tories. They try to make out that it doesn't exist.
Depends how you class poverty. If you take it as earning so much % below average wage, then there will always be poverty because when average wage grows, then the definition of poverty grows with it.
Average wages are outpacing inflation in Germany.
As with everything else on here there are vast regional differences and there are differences between city and countryside. Plus it is more expensive to live in a big city and so you could earn good money, but be poorer than someone who earns less elsewhere.
People don’t live on credit so much in Germany. The difference between cash and card payments is totally different to the UK.
I went to the UK recently and did not spend a penny in cash. For example, contactless is new in Germany and only works over credit cards ( supposed to include girocards as from now ) which most don’t have. My card transactions in my pub are about 8%. In my clothing shop it was more, but cash was still the preferred payment method. The limit for contactless is only 25€ here.
Germans rent more than buy, which is why they don’t have reserves such as the equity in their house.
Yes, it is easier for the rich to get richer than to get rich by working hard. That is not just a German or EU thing.
