Report: High level of poverty in Germany | DW News

A new report from the German Parity Welfare Association is sounding the alarm about the country's high rates of poverty. More than 14 million people are living below the poverty line, including a record number of children. DW visited a food bank here in Berlin to meet people who are struggling.
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[@porodicaVorgic]

There is no such thing as "Child poverty". Only poverty. And it hits families. But I guess it sounds better when you say it like that.

[@lenn939]

How does “child poverty” sound better than just “poverty”? Imo it sounds worse.

[@porodicaVorgic]

@@lenn939 Better for attention. Better for clicks. They tend to use strong, trigger words to get to our primal instincts and reactions.

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

Child poverty will harm the state taxes on the long run. These deprived children are expected to pay pensions one day.

[@user-ky9qn4pg3w]

Children yearn for the mines

[@zuzanazuscinova5209]

​​@@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage guess there will be no pensions then. I'm 32 and expect nothing. Millennials and Gen Z are adjusting, it's only an issue to people trying to retire within next 10-15 years

[@thenavigator4493]

There's no such thing as "child poverty", there's simply 'poverty'...and children are financially dependent on their parents.

[@shauncameron8390]

Exactly.

[@mark9294]

I don’t get all this handwringing over the term. “Child poverty” is poverty that affects children, it’s not that difficult to understand. That’s like saying there are no “red cars”, there are only “cars”…

[@thenavigator4493]

@@mark9294 We should keep children out of politics. The solution to child poverty will be child labour.

[@renzuki5830]

@@mark9294 The term is misleading. There can't be any "child poverty" without poverty. The car example doesn't hold up. A red car specifially is disntinctly different from a car. Not every car is red. If there is child poverty there is just poverty though. "Child poverty" says "the parents are poor" the same way poverty says "the parents are poor". You are trying to make a distinction "children are affected" that also doesn't exist. Children are always affected by poverty. The only exceptions to the rule would be rich parents kicking out their children into poverty or celibate poor people that don't have children. Neither of these cases are meant by child poverty though.

[@jamesdoe3553]

Poor German Kids, Rich German Politicians.

[@spookyargument7537]

And an even richer state which taxes people to hilt

[@halberderdier8073]

​@@spookyargument7537Actually financial support for the poor makes up the largest part of the budget.

[@halberderdier8073]

German politicians earn much less than corporate managers.

[@renatetebbel6954]

@@halberderdier8073actually the poor on social welfare are not bad off, while pensioners and the working poor are really disproportionately disadvantaged

[@spookyargument7537]

@@halberderdier8073 The largest scandal is one third of federal budget going towards pensioners. The pension system is a ticking time bomb - it's a Ponzie Sheme with a mere 2 contributors for every beneficiary

[@user-sm9jy2jm1i]

When is Europe going to realise. We can't house the world.

[@GazGuitarz]

When Klaus Schwab tells them to...which he never will.

[@MetalHead-ks9zq]

Hey we got the same problem over here in the United States

[@anthonyfaucy2761]

​@@MetalHead-ks9zqThe US is massive tho

[@northernking2604]

Not everyone wants to go to europe😂 stop lying to yourself

[@KirkMillerShow]

lit u can with 20 bil$ in the usa and they just approved building trains on the moon

[@Pinback71]

Ah well, that's what happens when you import social problems from other countries without first resolving your own. It only makes it worse.

[@Gtumrths]

You are absolutely right! The German Government wants GERMANS to be poor!!!!

[@sapphiremoonstone939]

The TikTok comments all say it is not important that people in other countries are poor because it means they are lazy, and it is more important that people donate money to Palestine lol 😅

[@michelleodeke8600]

Painful yet it's the honest truth!

[@James-kv6kb]

Same things happening in Australia bringing all the boat people in and the standard of living keeps dropping. I often tell people when I was a kid we had steak most nights now we chop up one piece and put it on pasta for a whole family lol

[@yunshuiseng8]

The only social problem is that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer and the middle class gets fckd. And that is not because people flee from misery, but because of a system that serves only the rich and spreads like a cancer worldwide.

[@ANIMALS_AND_MORE_moments]

On a personal level, if one cannot take care of one's self, one is seen as unable to help others. That approach should go for governments too.

[@urimtefiki226]

The rich are laughing while the children suffer. I worked for my children not for the rich who are plunderers of my invention.

[@James-kv6kb]

It's the same old story that's been going on for thousands of years get into politics or don't winge because that's the only way you're going to change it

[@MagusMik]

It’s really insane everywhere is facing the same problems

[@stevenhenry5267]

Blame corporations.

[@anim3z4u]

It was fortold in the Bible!

[@duncansmith7562]

except Russia

[@liliatursunova4950]

​@@duncansmith7562 better cry in Mercedes then in zaporoghets

[@duncansmith7562]

@@liliatursunova4950 as if those are the only two options.

[@FuckYTube]

While the rich get richer...

[@urimtefiki226]

you can get rich either with creativity (invention) or monopoles

[@pakabe8774]

Not while, it is because. The more people are rich or the richer they become the more people have to be poor or the poorer they have to become.

[@flesz_]

The problem to get rich is taxes Richer you get،پ،more tax you pay

[@pakabe8774]

@@flesz_ Wrong. No matter if you live in Germany or the US of A, the richer you are the less tax you pay - because the super rich have excellent conditions to pay almost no tax. Sure, there are rich people who are fair - at least to some extend - but many are not and pay no tax. Or don't you understand why Elon Musk for example lives from loans or could completely buy Twitter by loans? The richer you are, the less money you need.

[@flesz_]

that's true, but that is only if you get to a level of having a few or tens of millions , but how do you get there? If you want to jump from working class to middle class , that's when they tax you 45% and more. Pretty much you give away half of your money . Unless you are a family of super rich who inherited the fortune that is no problem, you can buy property in monaco, have wealth management companies find the best way to sort you out, create offshore accounts , pay pretty much no tax @@pakabe8774

[@Melior_Traiano]

I wonder about the impact that immigration has on the overall poverty statistic. Also, being poor in Germany doesn't mean that you go to bed hungry (which is why so many immigrants go there as well). 20% of the population pays 80% of the taxes.

[@Raindrops77]

You absolute right ......

[@enlightened786.]

Tf are u talking about, as if germany isn't becoming industrialy irrelevant day by day , blame immigration as if 80 % of the population are immigrants . Germany is suffering the consequences of being a puppet to the us .

[@KnallKalle]

You're wrong! There is hunger! People without electricity! homeless people. It's all there in Germany, you just have to want to see it! German politicians just haven't seen it for a long time. At least since the 70's

[@b4hva984]

Yeah just stick the immigration sticker to every problem.

[@sloeberdoet]

@@b4hva984 the mass immigration plays a role in it.

[@nublex]

so much for being the third largest economy in the world

[@lenn939]

Not like the second and first don’t have poverty

[@wztrtzr5016]

Germany is 4th after GDP . But whatever wouldn't change the problem because it have nothing to do with GDP doesn't say anything about how poor or rich people are in a country.

[@lenn939]

@@wztrtzr5016 It’s third currently

[@Kite-te9km]

​@@wztrtzr5016 I have been saying this for years. GDP figures are a lie!

[@GazGuitarz]

The US and the UN/WEF/EU have trashed the place and the economy. Some Ukrainian style trashing is heading their way soon. Then the US can move in and rebuild a trashed Europe and make huge moola like after WW2. You can see it already happening in Ukraine with Blackrock and JP Morgan. The Euro was beginning to become a threat the US petro dollar and we all know what the US does when that happens. How could Germany allow the US to trash their cheap energy deals with Russia? Insanity and nothing of gain in it for Germany only misery.

[@swedemartyrsonswade]

It really pains me to see a young child who is struggling and trying to keep up with hard times.

[@ufosrus]

Poverty also hits seniors hard.

[@liminalist451]

but germany just donated money for war am i right?

[@valevisa8429]

Donating money to fight evil is a good thing.Only the evil ones see it as a bad thing.

[@dansmaljaj3796]

they also gave 45millions to unrwa 🤮

[@tazulislam8247]

Yes you are. Only 50 Billions Packages for Ukraine 🙄🙃😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😁🙄🙄😁😁🤔

[@dansmaljaj3796]

@@tazulislam8247 does allah agree with all your emojis? 😉✌

[@rebecadiaz7005]

Yes that’s what I think Money for war taken away for the less fortunate. Insane !!!

[@gregorywilson2124]

It’s the same in every western developed country. Germany is particularly vulnerable because the salaries are so low while prices are very high and increasing. In the USA there is even more devastation because we don’t have a safety net and the poor end up homeless.

[@BlingBlingBandido]

Food prices in Germany are one of the lowest in Europe and cheaper than US.

[@kordaxmint533]

​@@BlingBlingBandido Food prices only. You can't even buy a property, and most Germans rent (Most Europeans rent also); people take mortgages for 30+ years, which is crazy. 500k for an ordinary house in Germany. I've bought a business-class apartment for 200k USD in Russia without taking on massive debt. Car prices in Germany for German cars are almost 20-30% higher than in the US lol. US citizens can buy a brand new BMW X5, and I know few people who did this in the US and are just hired employees... they own several brand-new BMWS... yet in Germany, people can only dream about buying a new BMW X5; instead, they mostly buy used cars. We live in such an economic system where people are homeless because most cannot own houses/apartments and have to rent for the rest of their lives. This is not normal, and this is not how our parents lived. Taxes in Germany are enormous.... 42% tax for an ordinary salary. Most services are overpriced. Utility prices are crazy. Internet prices? I pay about ~12 USD for 500 mbit/s in Kazakhstan. Many developed countries are really in trouble now.

[@BlingBlingBandido]

@@kordaxmint533 Yes rents and real estate prices are out of control and absurd. Just not the main cause of poverty. Selling communal social housing from past governments was a big mistake though.

[@markbantz9699]

@@kordaxmint533enjoy Russia! Watch out!!😂😂😂

[@jeremytine]

Yes, prices are cheaper in places like Russia, but so are wages, even more so. Russia actually has a much lower PPP per Capita. ​@@kordaxmint533

[@geeksworkshop]

When food banks starter appearing that was a warning sign that we all ignored. Now they have become a standard. Meanwhile the rich are getting richer with each fold-over.

[@shawnd.8498]

Food banks started in 1981 in Canada.

[@gilh3947]

Mainly imported poverty. These images are highly selective.

[@GazGuitarz]

Failing industrial base due to climate fear mongering and the loss of cheap Russian energy.

[@gilh3947]

Gas prices in Europe are on the same level as before. And your addition of climate blah blah is typical St Petersburg troll speak@@GazGuitarz

[@kamilksiazek8019]

​@@gilh3947 10/10

[@metodiusm428]

@@gilh3947 Sadly it's not only immigrants, there are quite a lot of Germans as well

[@gilh3947]

One tends to forget that merely 30 years ago half of germany was an economic ruin, created by the communist dictatorship that was one of the many sad consequences of WWII. That good old soviet empire, where people queued for bread and the KGB or Stasi decided who lived and who perished. That good old soviet empire that is what putin dreams about today.@@metodiusm428

[@belowfreezing89]

It’s not just Germany, it’s Korea, Australia, Canada, USA, UK and more.

[@carlosmurgelcddr.1418]

Sad to see such a rich country with poverity increasing.

[@werewolfcountry]

@@kibun1It's not socialism....

[@greenknitter]

@@kibun1 There are no socialists in the German government parties lmao...just say you don't know what socialism means and move on.

[@juangee303]

Buddy that not socialism, your ignorance is part of the problem.

[@GazGuitarz]

Everything has gone so swimmingly well since 2019. It's just one big laugh after another.

[@pennyc8252]

When your country want to be like God It happens 😢😢😢😢😢 Other countries issued is not your problems but your govt dig into it and forget their own peoples who actually need help😮

[@gtrdxz]

But you keep paying for the uninvited "guests", seems like germany isnt for the germans.

[@pennyc8252]

So true

[@Lobellien]

Because the guests are gold 🎉

[@James-kv6kb]

People go on about all these conspiracy theories but seriously I think they're trying to flood the world with immigrants so our economies crash and only one particular country can succeed who runs all the narrative through their computer companies

[@ThisIsLikeM]

Seems like people will forever fall for simple answers before making effort to think on their own or even get educated on real matters of social inequality. It’s a shame, I don’t know how education could fail so hard.

[@James-kv6kb]

Comments removed so much for a free speech

[@riamu1985]

In Germany you cant afford Kids anymore....you have to work whole month to pay the rent.

[@wojciechsobiesiak]

Just keep bills as proof You have paid.

[@dannyboy8850]

It is a well established fact the economy in Germany has been going downhill as far back as 18 months ago. 😭

[@leszeknagooglach]

But there is money to support the 'engineers and doctors' that Angela invited to Germany....

[@sloeberdoet]

engineers and doctors that even can't write or read.

[@jyotsnapantsachiv5346]

@@sloeberdoet Many Indians can write and understand English and hv learnt German,too!

[@Sandra-ml1xn]

Engineers and doctors coming frm india are highly educated. We don't have enuf jobs to support them, thats why they go abroad. Plus they pay taxes. Please dont come at Indians. They are mostly respectable individuals who intergrate well into the country and culture they go to.

[@sloeberdoet]

@@jyotsnapantsachiv5346 We are not talking about those. We are talking about the masses that invade Europe. A big part of them are illiterate you always knocking on the same wood which has nothing to do with the topic we're discussing here. We are talking about the hundreds of thousands which come illegal or even legal but without any useful skills.

[@Clydeb_9994]

Direct result of Angela's legacy and of the new liberal/green coalition!

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

Germany has not had any wealth taxes since 1996. Even in socialist Switzerland you have to pay such taxes.

[@duncansmith7562]

but there was no decline of Germany after 1996. the decline is post the lunatic Left agenda: sanctions on Russia, Green policies, high priced energy, mass immigration.

[@duncansmith7562]

that may well explain why so much of Switzerland looks like a sh**hole compared to the past.

[@Melior_Traiano]

"Even in socialist Switzerland you have to pay wealth taxes?" Sorry, but that statement makes no sense. I'd expect there to be wealth taxes in a socialist country.

[@duncansmith7562]

@@Melior_Traiano one would expect nothing but

[@kamilksiazek8019]

But they have taxes on capital gains, as well as a pretty high dividend tax of 26.875%. Where does it go?

[@alihanaydogdu6158]

The recession hit Germany hard. The combination of an aging population, a shrinking workforce, reduced production, and wrong government policies has brought this to a head. Even cheap Ukrainian and Syrian labor will not be able to fix Germany's economy.

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

Installing wealth taxes would be a first step. We talk here about imbalances, this country is rich.

[@user-xt5yz8wm7z]

@@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage not the rich 🤣🤣

[@asvathg358]

As German language is an absolute must for German employers, it starts to take away the interests of skilled workers from across the globe. They feel that it is quite a challenge to learn German (takes a lot of valuable time, which they can invest in other useful things), where other countries are managing with English. Moreover, every small process by the Auslandbehörde (for foreigners) takes a lot of time and the finance and banking industries are quite slow and unresponsive to customers (talking from a common man point of view).

[@cristinaximera9663]

"Child poverty".... do rich parents have poor children? What is "child poverty"? The private food banks, btw., are an early manifestation of a failing state.

[@cumhurtopbas7014]

The same story for most of the western world, high inflation, high unemployment, low savings and few good opportunities

[@elenamonteagudo9855]

But Germany is sending millions of euros to Ucraine? That is pornographic 🤷

[@NobodySpecial509]

Canada 🇨🇦 is in the same situation and our gvmt is doing the same.. shameful.

[@sofehd4696]

Oh god.. what a shame society where there is a teenager in line for food donation, not at home.

[@liar-liar]

What happened to the weapons supplied to Israel, selling or donating

[@dansmaljaj3796]

what will happen with the 45millions donated to unrwa ?? more tunnels ??

[@AleeBebop182]

It's all preordained 😊 by his eminence.

[@sloeberdoet]

Stay at the topic here.

[@89Honeey]

@@sloeberdoet this comment is related with the topic. Because it's with the taxes that we pay that they finance wars.

[@sloeberdoet]

@@89Honeey That's right sadly.

[@geoffoakland]

The billions of euros spent on accommodating asylum seekers should have been spent helping lower income Germans.

[@geoffoakland]

@@geoms6263 you mean the inadequate 400 euro pension that man receives.? That is precisely the problem

[@soundscape26]

Yeah right, all asylum seekers live in plush resorts and all. So many billions...

[@etm8539]

Totally agree, but those immigrants will end up doing the low salary jobs that hold the economy, so they are not that bad in the actual situation. It's the same here in Spain, you go to the plantations and almost all the workers are immigrants. What the states should do is stop giving those people money, they should be productive to the society, not detrimental.

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

@@etm8539 We have the first syrian city major in germany, but that's not what you want to hear.

[@KEMough]

The Germans can shut the economy down by doing a walkout. When buses, trains, hospitals, ambulances, etc are at a stand still maybe the government will wake up. I dunno. I doubt they’d replace these peoples jobs in a day with an immigrant.

[@amazingblogs3213]

Sanctioning cheap Russian gas has consequences

[@stephenduffy5406]

But the million Syrians are eating well ...

[@JustMichael51083]

🎯👍

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

We don't have to pit the misery of some against the misery of others. We're talking about imbalances here, this country is rich.

[@werewolfcountry]

Are they though?

[@janlanik2660]

I think they are probably counted in that 20%

[@sapere7]

You say the same thing about Ukrainians ?

[@Average_Bruh]

Yeap. I'm working and I get 13.50 an hour. 130hr in total. That's less than 1800€ gross. Rent isn't cheap and neither is the energy costs. Not to mention all the other taxes one has to pay. In Germany, if you don't meet the right people with the right opportunity, it's almost impossible to advance from where you are. The tide pushing back is hard. It's like a uphill battle against a raging flood. A large part is due to the bureaucracy and the time it takes to get things done. Having to wait on mail and reply takes a lot of unnecessary time and quite frankly a waste of paper. I have suitcases filled with letters.

[@brainbox5030]

Do you live in Berlin with any academical qualification? Can you speak German to B1 level? if yes, i can link you to jobs of over 2,900 Net salary

[@Average_Bruh]

@@brainbox5030 then i need to move to Berlin it seems

[@brainbox5030]

Getting an Apartment is a big problem. However, if u can get an apartment and have the afore-mentioned qualities, i can link u up. @@Average_Bruh

[@tulip811]

Hä Dreischicht klärt 😂

[@bsl025]

Maybe work 160h like most of people?

[@davinxi5926]

Inflation hits everywhere

[@nic969]

That Problem exists also without Inflation.

[@antixdevelopment1416]

@@nic969 Exactly. Politicians have access to so much resource for the stuff that they deem valid like financing their countries wars and so forth but don't make their own citizens lives better.

[@Memovox]

De-industrialization doesn't hit everywhere.

[@compactwoodhplcladding]

Really? I thought only germany.

[@user-bj3ns4fe1w]

Not everywhere in Germany is high

[@spootnik00]

Increasing minimum wage will also increase inflation

[@Real-comment-unreal-name]

Yes it’s a crazy cycle.

[@skycloud4802]

Inflation is actually increasing anyway. The minimum wage needs to keep up.

[@tulip811]

Weimar calling

[@michaelcullen6923]

How's that "Wir schaffen das" going now?

[@renatetebbel6954]

Going the way of all „Hybris“… down the drain

[@MrUbercool007]

Where is this food bank located?

[@Reymi722]

You mean specially this one? In every city you can find these, they are called "die Tafel".

[@chenghonggoh4746]

Proverty alleviation starts with awareness of the problem. Thank you DW for highlighting this issue.

[@Memovox]

It's getting harder and harder for DW & Co. to ignore the obvious.

[@Alexandrinka]

I think it's good that in Germany you can talk openly about serious problems such as poverty and report on them on television and in newspapers. In my home country Belarus it is forbidden to talk about such things publicly, even though people's purchasing power is much (!) worse than in Germany. The cityscape in Belarus is characterized by countless second-hand shops. Many pensioners work until they are 70 because they want to help their poor children and grandchildren. But in Belarus there are no food banks, no social markets and no soup kitchens - that would be considered a shame and would publicly show the true extent of poverty. The media tells people that things are not as bad for them as the people in Africa, for example, who often have no bread at all. Anyone who dares to talk about it publicly will receive a punishment or even a few months in prison - for “discrediting” the authorities and the government.

[@Kite-te9km]

😮😮 Who told you we have no bread in Africa??? I probably live better than you here and yet I am at low middle class!!

[@stayfetch9841]

@@Kite-te9km the Belorussian government / Same as Putin, they lie constantly to its own people, they even convinced whole nations that Ukraine is Fascist and people have to agree with it 💁‍♂

[@tulip811]

Northern Africa maybe ? 😅​@@Kite-te9km

[@pennyc8252]

​@@Kite-te9km Everyone knows Africa is poorest continents among others. U r just lucky one 😮

[@Kite-te9km]

@@pennyc8252 MSM educated you that way?

[@compactwoodhplcladding]

I am a Chinese businessman engaged in German business. In the past, we could provide Germany with very cheap goods, but now, we are forced to raise prices due to various German bureaucracies. VAT,WEEE,EPR We believe that these restrictions are just the beginning.

[@SDM496]

Thanks but we don't want low quality Chinese products. Just for example, I never buy Chinese Ginger in the grocery stores. It has no fibre and no taste. The Chinese quality cannot be trusted.

[@swatichatterjee1513]

Sorry, but I am just curious, what exactly do you mean by bureaucracy?

[@compactwoodhplcladding]

WEEE, VAT, EPR certifications. These obstacles increase not only our costs but also the antagonism between countries. The lessons of World War II have taught us this. Many of us have given up the business in Germany, and I have actually left the business in Germany. @@swatichatterjee1513

[@compactwoodhplcladding]

VAT, WEEE, EPR Many of us have given up the business in Germany, and I have actually left the business in Germany last year.@@swatichatterjee1513

[@compactwoodhplcladding]

@@swatichatterjee1513 VAT blabla

[@localguy123]

Best thing to do is not to have children / more children is such dire situations.

[@armineser2591]

Statistic is missing which percentage of children from divorced versus non divorced families are poor. Is it the taxpayers duty to make up for the differential cost of a divorced couple?

[@catalina5382]

for Matias (the man with the canes) YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ASHAMED! the politicians and the system that failed you have to be ashamed, not you.

[@PAPOOSELAKESURFER]

Loss of the gas pipeline destroyed German economy, shut down industry dependent upon cheap energy.

[@TR-dt8mt]

When was Energy ever cheap in Germany?

[@Memovox]

@@TR-dt8mt Before Germany had to import expensive LNG from the US.

[@TR-dt8mt]

⁠@@Memovoxgo on. Energy was never ever affordable in Germany and the pipeline would’ve not made a difference.

[@Memovox]

@@TR-dt8mt Yes it was, it kept the German industry alive. Not so anymore. Are you selling US LNG by any chance..?

[@TR-dt8mt]

@@kibun1I think in the 70’s we had in Germany an energy crisis.

[@NikolausFedermann-im5nf]

" If I import Kalkutta, I become Kalkutta" (Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist).

[@hackedbyBLAGH]

That's bad news. Poland is looking left and right lol

[@kongthai..]

€2000 a month minimum wage. That's interesting. Providing grants to the vulnerable, the old, the young, the incapacitated. Everyone watches how Germany 🇩🇪 manages society. 🥺

[@IbnBahtuta]

Cheer up, at least your postage stamps don't cost fifty million Marks anymore.

[@impedimenta934]

Germany needs a serious overhaul, both politically and socially. It now depends upon the enlightened and educated German citizens to understand how they will steer the country away from this. One thing I know about Germans are that they are very resilient and quick to respond when they think it is really needed. I hope they come through this time as well.

[@BobBob-ix4cl]

Earning 4K a month. Paying 1.5K to taxes insurance etc. and still making it hardly over the month

[@aarhusnord]

This is the recipe for polarization, extremism, unrest ... the system is broken, therefore at some time it may get broken down itself.

[@recabitejehonadab2654]

Doesn’t look like one kid is starving too badly .

[@quartermaster1976]

All they can afford is carbs like the old Soviet Block babushkas were refrigerator shaped but the Union dissolved.

[@richardpancham7556]

Waste of money sent to fight war .

[@desinihilist5916]

I mean this does make sense, German industries already do not find people to work for them. German salaries are slowly becoming unattractive for most of the educated people. So keeping German children poor will mean they spend a lot more time worrying, little time studying. This will in turn mean instead of being able to get high paying jobs in the future, there will be a steady flow of people forced to work for the lowest German salaries keeping Germany in some form an attractive export option for the world.

[@KEMough]

So it’s a Republican system? The German people can do a walk out and shut the country down starting with healthcare.

[@GaddarKerim1]

Germany must digitalize the state services and must reduce bureaucracy to attract more investment for decreasing poverty.

[@pakabe8774]

Wrong. Bureaucracy is helping to decrease poverty. Lowering bureaucracy just hides poverty. I myself grew up in poverty in the 80's and 90's. My Mother grew up in poverty in the 60's and 70's. We just weren't statistically detected, but believe me, we existed.

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

Thank to bureaucracy we have numbers about child poverty.

[@shauncameron8390]

@@pakabe8774 LOL.

[@tulip811]

Bureaucracy is good, look at all the countries which don't have it 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

[@pakabe8774]

@@tulip811 You got it, because that's what the people who discredit bureaucracy want.

[@AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc]

And all the imports? Doing OK.

[@duncansmith7562]

looks like Andreas could do with losing a kilo or two. keep him out of the food bank.

[@paulsmith2442]

This is happening in nearly every country every government is taking the piss

[@RussianPies]

When other people's interests are more important than their children.

[@goru426]

Final stage of unregulated capitalism, all the money goes to the top 1%.

[@shauncameron8390]

Germany is a social democracy. The real problem is too much bureaucracy.

[@tsean1158]

Germany don’t support the war, but your people!

[@friedrichjunzt]

How is this possible?! We have lowered the taxes for the rich so much over decades and still nothing is tickling down?! 😮😮😮😮🤡

[@user-xt5yz8wm7z]

Cry about it 🤣🤣

[@MukadisAymen-ui8fy]

This is the problem with today's politicians like Germany they hav money for NATO Ukraine but not for their own people....

[@letsgooo162]

Isso!

[@JoeFrancis4876]

That's common in all the countries ,even in India

[@MukadisAymen-ui8fy]

@@JoeFrancis4876and this is wrong any government should take care of his own people first before using the people resource to take care of others ....!!!

[@michaelmansini2307]

They are poor but culturally enriched

[@sloeberdoet]

Like in Great Brittain where you walk in cities where you can ask yourself if you're in a West -European country, Belgium the same, Netherlands, Germany and France. All countries where they can have easy acces to easy social benefits, free housing, free healthcare all at the expense of the hard working tax payer.

[@tobiwie]

Germany has one of the highest minimum wages around the world already. So my guess would be that raising minimum wages further will not solve the problem. In my eyes the goverment should try to lower the energy prices for private households.

[@nvmtt1403]

throwing money at an ailing economy only drives up inflation. they need to increase production so things become cheaper. Not just raise wages.

[@Memovox]

German LNG imports from the US is expensive. And the households of ordinary German people are paying the price.

[@user-yr5ck8bx9v]

@@Memovox Yeah expensive here to. And the price is going up. Socialist Marxist take over of our energy caused it. Now their after businesses. Wonderful little comrades. My sarcasm

[@pavlom4745]

Could you answer, how much you pay for energy in coldest winter month and what is usual temperature?

[@KEMough]

It’s back to stoking fires and wearing two coats of

[@spicyroads]

Guy went from embarrassed to international media

[@Come_to_light119]

It's dangerous. If countries like Germany are having economic problems like poverty then how can people of countries of Africa and poor countries of Asia expect good life for themselves?

[@Kite-te9km]

Here in Africa we have no food banks. You starve only by your own choice. It's quite different here.

[@HIMANSHU79879]

Instead of taking care of own citizen german mofa is more interested in championing democracy in india... shame and pity for its citizen

[@andresvalverde5182]

Externalizing one's own problems. It's a very popular strategy to just ignore Germany's own problems and try to make a big hassle of a completely irrelevant problem somewhere else. That's how they get away with completely ignoring what's going on inside.

[@HIMANSHU79879]

@@andresvalverde5182 german citizen must ask question to their leader why the german government is spending million of euro for promoting democracy and human rights in india..... wasting huge sum of money for nonsense thing rather than improving quality of live of german people

[@abhinavdhull1431]

​@@HIMANSHU79879what's the source of this Germany is sending millions of euros?

[@HIMANSHU79879]

@@abhinavdhull1431 you have internet ..... you can search online

[@Average_Bruh]

I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. I found it odd that people would believe that a country's reach is so limited that they can only address one thing at a time. There is a reason there are various departments of government that handle various issues. Don't be gullible. Governing is not that simple. When a country withdraws from the world to focus on themselves, how does that help? Is international alliances and economic deals so frivolous that a country can do without it? How is that working out for NK? Every country works on itself. Regardless of what it looks like externally, the aim of it all is for their own country to benefit. Who would help Germany if they needed it if Germany helped no one. There's a reason only some people can lead a country and some just have to assume from the sidelines and create conspiracy theories. We can always judge governments because we don't know about half of what it takes.

[@vfclists]

If some people have the money to buy food to be distributed at the food banks then why isn't the same money paid out to the needy so they can purchase the food directly themselves? Where do food banks actually get their funding from?

[@shauncameron8390]

Private donations and out of their own pockets.

[@geraldallocca6858]

Something must be done about the worldwide inequality! This just didn’t happen overnight! Been going on for decades!!!

[@hrvojeleko5847]

No one complained when government printed money , now the chickens are coming home to roost

[@pakabe8774]

Last time German government printed money, was decades ago. So what are you talking about?

[@urimtefiki226]

I am doctor and I am fighting for providing for my children in this crises.

[@smimtiaz4556]

😮

[@JG-xk5nd]

Was ein lächerliches Statement. 6 Kinder und Assistenzarzt in München oder was ? Klar ist die Situation leicht angespannt aber was sollen dann die Durchschnittsverdiener sagen?

[@janlanik2660]

In Germany? Come on, doctors make like 80K+. Maybe if you just finished school and are single parent or something. I have 2 small children in Bavaria and the entire necessary costs of our family are definitely bellow 3000 euros per month (including rent, not including vacations and champagne). Don't say you don't make 3000 netto as a doctor. Plus you get 250 per kid Kindergeld. I mean seriously I'd like to understand how what you are saying is possible.

[@pavlom4745]

Can I ask how many hours you work per week and what is your income? Are your renting your living place or have own house?

[@rake483]

A struggling doctor? Hard to believe. Do you live in a 4 bedroom apartment in downtown? The doctors i know drive 100,000€ SUVs and live in small mansions.

[@kellykreqeli8924]

If people come illegally they are housed and are given help yet the people who from the countries get very little help especially the working with families

[@jerrymathura5807]

The EURO BROUGHT HUGE INFLATION IN EUROPE, WITH THE DEUTSCHE MARK YOU DIDN'T HAD THIS, HOLE EUROPE SUFFERS, WATCHING FROM SURINAME

[@AshishSawant-mt5bv]

In war ,both sides lose - Buddha

[@anuragchakraborty8766]

Rubbish

[@Existence-zy4gb]

Get that social system out of Germany!

[@a.r.stellmacher8709]

NO

[@Zhu936]

German citizens endure hardships domestically while their government allocates billions of dollars to fund a foreign conflict in Ukraine-some may deem this a betrayal.

[@bindeshkumarsingh]

Poor countries poverty: rare to get food, proper cloths etc. West poverty: unable to get food with big house, AC, costly clothing etc

[@jacqueslee2592]

That 14 year old kid looks younger than his real age. Before, 14 year old Germans looked like 18 year olds. Now they look like they are 10. This is what poverty does too. It stunts the population.

[@tulip811]

People used to SMOKE A LOT MORE 30 years ago 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ that's the only reason y'all used to look older !!!!

[@bsl025]

Come to Berlin - people look on average 10 years older due to all the drugs they consume 😂

[@jessicahayes9788]

Seems like Germany has similar issues as we do here in the U.S. as if they all talk and synchronize their agenda.

[@gardenjoy5223]

Don't forget, that a lot of people under the poverty line are only so on paper. For they can't find any work. Because the only work they want to do is without paying taxes. So they get Bürgergeld (Citizen's money) And make a nice buck on the side. Those are mainly imported people. They do not integrate very well. Or they don't integrate at all. It's just a minority that integrates quite well.

[@yunshuiseng8]

The first time I saw old people looking through a garbage can for food - some decades ago - I was crying. I never had thought that my country will fall so low. Meanwhile it seems that the whole society is falling apart. Those who have little care for those who have even less while the rich are looking for more and more perverted pleasure to spend the money that they suck out of the working people by a self-sustaining system protected by laws that serve the rich and punish the poor.

[@lateblossom]

I'm really disappointed in germany. I did not expect this to happen in germany.

[@margritpiepes8242]

It’s a crying shame German goverment needs to do better . Do right by the children because they are Germany’s future.

[@Verifyourage]

What do you expect when they take away rights to settle on land and farm instead they are forced into apartment prisons

[@matw-jo6uh]

That's what happens when your country spends egregious amounts of money on war war WAR

[@absfinal]

what's even child poverty when every kid has a parent?

[@Maximum_maxi1]

Did you find an answer? I'm interested to know how

[@Maybe-cg2tn]

"Child poverty" shouldn't even be a thing. Don't have children that you can't afford. This goes for the whole world. Not just Germany. Ppl have these kids and expect others to take care of them.

[@EngTrek]

Früher bekam Deutschland billiges Benzin und war ein großer Exporteur. Es wird noch mehr kommen.

[@TheAmphicyon]

Wait wait wait. Does this count immigrants and children of immigrants. We have the same problem in the usa. Poor people come here with their poor children. So what is the population of real citizen's who are poor. That is the question.

[@sabarnapalit9446]

In our India we suffer from high level of poverty. Our life standards are much below and it is incomparable. Most of the country can't imagine what our poor peoples have to go through

[@bpdbhp1632]

Because all the money goes to the loving immigrants that want to pay the people back in every possible way and are always thankfull

[@bluesea1769]

In my country, we don't have such thing call poverty. Everything is fine.

[@ronberman8947]

$100's of billion euros for Ukraine. Crumbs for the working poor.Where is your reporting DW?

[@GazGuitarz]

Deutsch WEF land is such a success they are trying to replicate it all over the western world.

[@flesz_]

I think we should all do global crowdfunding to help children in Germany

[@muhammadyuda4643]

but they spend billion dollar on ukraina, why why why lol

[@JoneLang]

An old saying serves as a good reminder to our leaders; “Charity begins at home”. Why spend billions to serve others with no benefits to our people?

[@jeremytine]

There are benefits Ivan.

[@mikel9138]

@@jeremytine Im sure the poor people see those benefits Goldstein

[@Kartoffelsuppe_m_Wursteinlage]

Charity doesn't begin at home, charity begins with overcoming one's own egotism. You can practice empathy.

[@NatashaLawes-xg3uk]

Failing leeders of the World!!