According to a study, the proportion of children and young adults at risk of poverty in Bavaria is the lowest in Germany. For children under the age of 18, their share was 13.4 percent in 2021, according to an analysis by the Bertelsmann Foundation published on Thursday. Of young adults aged 18 to 25, 18.1 percent were at risk of poverty. Nationwide, the proportion of children (20.8 percent) and young adults (25.5 percent) at risk of poverty was significantly higher....
Bavaria's Social Affairs Minister Ulrike Scharf (CSU) has admitted that accessibility in the Free State is not progressing as quickly as once thought - but referred to progress in state buildings. The Bavarian Commissioner for the Disabled presented his report in the cabinet of Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU). The journalist Holger Kiesel, who has been involved in clubs and initiatives on the subject since his school days due to his physical disability, is the only one of the eight...
Not long ago, the big retail groups still showed themselves to be poverty fighters. Now they want nothing more to do with it, even though prices are rising rapidly. They see the state as having an obligation. Is that reprehensible?from Michael KläsgenFrom today's perspective, these are remarkable sentences that the food companies published about their social responsibility. They are only three years old, the world was different then: no Corona, no Ukraine war, no 20 percent inflation in food. But,...
social policy:"My generation lived beyond their means"Jan 9, 2023 11:31 amReading time: 6 minsOpen detailed viewThe professor of economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Monika Schnitzer, in the university premises. (Photo: Jan A. Staiger/Jan A. Staiger)The federal government is doing too little for old-age security, says Monika Schnitzer. The chairwoman of the Economic Wise Men demands that pensions rise more slowly - and that the state melts particularly high pensions. Interviewed by Bastian Brinkmann and Roland Preuss, Berlin, MunichlistenNoticeSplitfeedbackThere are still empty...
social policy:"My generation lived beyond their means"Jan 8, 2023 6:36 p.mReading time: 6 minsOpen detailed viewThe professor of economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Monika Schnitzer, in the university premises. (Photo: Jan A. Staiger/Jan A. Staiger)The federal government is doing too little for old-age security, says Monika Schnitzer. The chairwoman of the Economic Wise Men demands that pensions rise more slowly - and that the state melts particularly high pensions. Interviewed by Bastian Brinkmann and Roland Preuss, Berlin, MunichlistenNoticeSplitfeedbackThere are still empty...
social policy:"My generation lived beyond their means"Jan 8, 2023 6:36 p.mReading time: 6 minsOpen detailed viewThe professor of economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Monika Schnitzer, in the university premises. (Photo: Jan A. Staiger/Jan A. Staiger)The federal government is doing too little for old-age security, says Monika Schnitzer. The chairwoman of the Economic Wise Men demands that pensions rise more slowly - and that the state melts particularly high pensions. Interviewed by Bastian Brinkmann and Roland Preuss, Berlin, MunichlistenNoticeSplitfeedbackThere are still empty...
Hundreds of thousands have no permanent home, millions cannot actually afford their homes. Germany has a huge problem. time for something to happen.comment by Stephen RadomskyA country that offers a home to all people, locals and immigrants. This is what Germany wants to be by 2030. That's how the federal government already has it made in their coalition agreement. In seven years there should be no more homeless people, everyone should have a permanent home. Actually a matter of course...
Hundreds of thousands have no permanent home, millions cannot actually afford their homes. Germany has a huge problem. time for something to happen.comment by Stephen RadomskyA country that offers a home to all people, locals and immigrants. This is what Germany wants to be by 2030. That's how the federal government already has it made in their coalition agreement. In seven years there should be no more homeless people, everyone should have a permanent home. Actually a matter of course...
comment by Bastian BrinkmanThe modern welfare state works like an insurance company. Everyone pays in - and if the worst comes to the worst, you get money from the solidarity fund. The individual citizen does not have to bear the risk of going under completely financially if he becomes unemployed or ill. Or too old to work. But now a special case of damage has occurred: because Russia invaded the Ukraine, energy has become more expensive in Germany. This can...
Of Roland Preuss, BerlinWhat is it like living below the Hartz IV level for eight years, below the official subsistence level? "Somehow you always manage it," says Marko Raimund. Even a little time off. "For the holidays I go to a buddy who has a house somewhere outside. That's okay if you have buddies." But Mallorca is of course not included. source site
