To many on the outside, Germany looks like a big, rich country enjoying the benefits of being Europe’s largest economy. Inside, Germans know that looks can be deceiving. As in any nation, parts of ...

Chief Executive of the Joint overall association "Paritatischer Gesamtverband" Ulrich Schneider holds up the report on poverty trends during the Federal Press Conference under the motto "Poverty in ...

Over 90 percent of Jewish pensioners live below the poverty line, according to the Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany. While one in five German pensioners lives below the poverty line, that ...

Almost one in six people, some 15.4 percent of the German population, were registered poor in terms of income in 2014. This is the conclusion of the poverty report of the Paritätischen Gesamtverbands ...

BERLIN (AFP) - The German government on Wednesday published a report on poverty in Europe's top economy amid claims by the opposition and in the media that it had spruced up the real picture.

What began as a daring endeavor to bring Germans more renewable energy and wean the country off nuclear energy by 2022 has turned German energy into a luxury good. The project began in 2000 with the ...

The recent “reform plans” of Ursula von der Leyen (conservative Christian Democratic Union), Germany’s federal minister for labour and social welfare, are supposed to prevent poverty among the elderly ...

Statistics have revealed increases in poverty in many larger cities in west Germany, predominantly in the Ruhr region. Conversely, poverty is trending downward in the former east. New research has ...

If you want to know what child poverty looks like in Germany, do not go onto the streets; go into homes, into living rooms and talk to people like the Thiel family. Twelve-year-old Jasmin Thiel and ...

After five years since the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), North Korea has resumed foreign tourism, and a well-known German influencer visiting North Korea for the first time has ...

BERLIN — Germany has near-record-low unemployment and a locomotive-strong economy, which leaves Frieder Beckmann with a question: Why can he get a job that pays only $2 an hour? It is a kind of ...