I noticed via several sites this past week....commentary over a Bertelsmann Foundation survey report.....one in five German juveniles.....are growing up in the circle of poverty.
Figure roughly 2.8 million German kids.
Bertelsmann says simply in passing that this was all in the pipeline even before Corona came along, and recent months simply corrodes the situation even further.
Resolving this?
A couple of the political parties have talked about Basic Income (say in the 2k range for a couple and child, with another allowance for more kids).....suggesting that the welfare program (Hartz IV) is a failure. Even if you give the parents more....does it really mean that the kid is lifted out of poverty or that the parent spends the extra money on reckless 'toys'?
Trying to hand the money directly to a 13-year-old kid? I watched some forum show where this idea got thrown out there. There's no guarantee that the kid would wisely spend extra cash flow or that the parent might 'persuade/bully' the kid into handling the money over to them.
Where does this lead? I might go and suggest that in ten years....a lot of those poverty kids will be over 18 years old, and able to vote. Getting a couple million of them lined up to vote for some radical party or political platform....might turn out to be your worst nightmare.
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