I often bring up the nature of poverty in Germany, and the upward trend. I noticed this morning, via my regional HR public TV network, another report on this.
Just in the state of Hessen itself.....another report was completed for the 2020 period....noting that regional numbers had gone from 15.8 percent of residents being in the poverty-class....to 16.1 percent at the end of 2020.
Presently, Hessen ranks seventh in the nation in terms of poverty (out of sixteen states).
How do you classify 'poor' in Germany? Well....it's a simple formula....you take the median monthly income (1,074 Euro for a single person or 2,256 for a family of four), and if you take home 60-percent of that or less....you are deemed in poverty.
Resolving this issue? You'd have to do something about wages, Hartz IV (the welfare program), and affordable housing. The odds of anything happening in 2021? Pretty much zero. So the trend-line ought to 'hold'.
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