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Rich country with poverty

Especially strong in Germany, the unemployed, Single parents and pensioners affected. The charities rely on state Numbers. Newly arrived refugees are in the statistics has not yet been recorded.

Single parents are often poor

“Germany is the fünftreichste country in the world”, stresses Ulrich Schneider, managing Director of the joint Wohlstandverbandes. Since the crisis year 2009 the gross domestic product in this country to over half a Billion euros. But at the same time, would more and more people of this prosperity uncoupled.

Schneider refers to the new annual report on poverty, the on data of the state census from the year 2014, is based. Particularly affected are therefore Single parents, the unemployed and pensioners. Also the good year of 2014 have not been any significant decline in the poverty rate in Germany. Compared to 2013, the poverty rate only by 0.1 per cent. Whether the long negative trend stopped, stay open.

Ulrich Schneider: poverty reduction means redistribution

In total more than 15 percent of German as poor. In Europe, Germany is thus statistically seen on a Central square. In contrast to the so-called absolute poverty in many other regions of the world, so existential crises such as homelessness or Hunger, when it comes to so-called “relative income Poverty”. It concerns, according to European Union all of the people who have less than 60 percent of median income. In Germany these are currently, for example, a single mother of 1192 euros.

Particularly fast is the risk of poverty in the last years, the pensioners have risen, contrary to the widespread assumption that it is the retired people in Germany better to go as the Rest of the population. The Problemregion number One is the Ruhr area with around 20 percent of the poor.

The German children’s charity criticizes the current social benefits for children from poor families as insufficient for equal social participation. The President of the Agency, Thomas Krüger, explained that the poverty rate for children of Single parents, large families and families with an immigrant background was 19 percent.

The report with the data from 2014 does not capture the consequences of high Flüchtlingszustromes. This would, according to Schneider, statistically anyway, when the refugees, its own budget, and then by the state census to be captured. As long as the refugees are in Hospital or other community shelters life, the statistics are not recorded. Schneider stressed that even without the refugees, there are a Million long-term unemployed and missing per year by 2020 400 000 additional flats.

Risk of poverty in old age in comparison

The managing Director of Pro Asyl, Günter Burkhardt, warned the government against making the wrong decisions in the asylum, the risk of poverty of refugees could increase. So would the Federal Ministry of the interior proposed a support for refugees, at an assigned place of residence to stay, their job search hinder. The same is true for the refusal of language courses for certain Groups of refugees. Also the fast track to the rejection of asylum-seekers without prospects of remaining could be counterproductive. Because often, these refugees then a suspension of deportation for humanitarian reasons. However, with the residence status of toleration was in Germany, not a permanent Job to get.

According to Paritätischem charity is a key to fighting poverty, with the Federal government, a rigorous change in the tax and fiscal policy take place must be: “poverty always means redistribution. It bites the mouse no thread off.”