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    Germania: 13 milioni vivono a rischio povertà

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    1. EdmontonBest on

      Then do something about it! Stop endlessly observing it and do something!

    2. GreenEyeOfADemon on

      Interestingly enough, the author of the blog doesn’t present his source, just a “trust me bro”.

    3. tnksrbrnddtrtrs on

      >The EU defines ‘at risk of poverty’ as living on less than 60% of the median equivalent income

      for people only reading the headline and afaik that gets measured on a country-wide level, if it’s wrong let me know but I couldn’t find anything that says otherwise.

      it’s a bit flawed then tbh. someone in eastern germany living a comfortable life in a village could be “at risk of poverty” because the country-wide median is significantly higher than his wage. on the other hand someone living a miserable live in Munich, earning just above those 60% wouldn’t be at risk of poverty. believe me, you don’t want to live in Munich earning 70% of Germany’s median wage

    4. TheChosenSDCharger on

      The concerning thing about this is the far right and the AfD will use this as an opportunity to blame immigrants for Germany’s problems. Something that a certain figure did too 70 years ago by blaming Slavs for Germany’s problems. Oh my god… I can only imagine what will come of this.

    5. Lachimanus on

      By the EU definition of poverty.

      Yes, we are not doing too much against that but it gets a bit better. Minimum wage is closer to being resistant against poverty.

      But one also has to say that living in Germany just around that poverty line means a much better life than a huge amount of other people on this planet. Maybe still in the top 40%.

    6. Ironvos on

      I think an important way to curtail poverty is simply to educate people better and especially give people basic financial education from a young age. There are genuinely people that are poor because of bad luck, but a lot of people are also poor because they have no idea how to manage money.

    7. Jehuty321 on

      When you import pool people there are more poor people. Surprised Pikachu face

    8. Honest_Science on

      Is that the Tansanian definition of poverty? Dying of hunger?

    10. ganbaro on

      This is a measure of inequality that gets advertised as a measure of poverty, with press accidentally (/s) missing out highlighting the difference between relative and absolute poverty whenever they report these numbers.

      Good unlabeled advertisement for the left of centre parties, though.

      AFAIK there is not even a governmental statistic of absolute poverty. It can technically be any value lower or higher, than the reported one.

      The closest stat we have is the EU definition of severe material and social deprivation. The rate for Germany is between 6 and 8 percent:

      https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250915-1

    12. HankMS on

      > The EU defines “at risk of poverty” as living on less than 60% of the median equivalent income — a value that splits the population in half based on weighted household incomes.

      The problem here is – as it is always in these discussions – the relative definition. But people are easily tricked by math. When the minimum wage increases and other wages don’t hold up the difference the result will simply be that the median rises and more people will be defined as at risk while they still have the same living standards as before.

      But economic illiterates are everywhere.

    13. Cute_Committee6151 on

      However how we define poverty there will always be millions in poverty or at risk of poverty.

    14. JumpyCarrot4053 on

      Its a stupid statistic. It measures poverty based on income and doesnt count in assets. By that definition my aunt who owns 2 houses and a vacation house on Mallorca with her husband is ‘poor’

    15. Away-Huckleberry9967 on

      I believe it was Gore Vidal who said: “It’s not enough to fly first class. There have to be people on the plane who fly coach.”

      We are here because this is what the conservative and neo-liberal parties and their billion dollar donors have been working towards for the last several decades.

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