Poverty in Germany at its highest since reunification.
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[QUOTE][B]Poverty in Germany is at it's highest since German reunification in 1990, according to a new study. Some 12.5 million Germans are now classified as poor.[/B][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE] Speaking in the German capital Berlin on Thursday, the chief executive of Germany's Equal Welfare Organization (paritätischem Wohlfahrtsverband), Ulrich Schneider, also warned that the gap between rich and poor states is growing ever-wider.
[I]"Poverty has never been as high and the regional disunity has never run as deep," Schneider said in reference to the 25 years which have past since German reunification.[/I][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Within a year, poverty in Germany rose from 15 percent to 15.5 percent in 2013. [B]The charity defines "poor" as people whose household earns 60 percent less than the average income.[/B][/QUOTE]
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I am poor lol
The sourceeeee
Still less poor in both severity and per capita than here.
[Quote]Within a year, poverty in Germany rose from 15 percent to 15.5 percent in 2013. The charity defines "poor" as people whose household earns 60 percent less than the average income.[/Quote]
Not dismissing the actual circumstances of those Germans, but that definition is awful. For one, not all households are equal; some may only be resident to a single adult, others may be resident to two adults and two children, and so the former household requires less income. Secondly, the use of averages is terrible. If even a couple of foreign millionaires or billionaires took up high-pay jobs in Germany (or if the exising rich get richer in real terms while the middle class maintains real wealth), that shifts up the average income of a household (tl;dr outliers). Should use median instead.
Haha we had this exact example in our statistics class on how a lot of statistics are outright idiotic.
By using their method poverty can rise while people's wages are also rising. Just to put this into perspective, people living in poverty in germany are people who earn less than 1232€ a month.
Fucking stupid way to define poverty.
[QUOTE=The Saiko;47177885]Haha we had this exact example in our statistics class on how a lot of statistics are outright idiotic.
By using their method poverty can rise while people's wages are also rising. Just to put this into perspective, people living in poverty in germany are people who earn less than 1232€ a month.
Fucking stupid way to define poverty.[/QUOTE]
I am pretty sure there are no students attending universities that earn that much money in a month, so they are all automaticly considered poor, even when they get money to pay for their roof on their head from the state.
When I was studying I got about 650 euro a month, while about half of that was used for my appartment + electricity bills. All in all I had about 200 euro a month to use for anything.
It's always good to have high standards. Our "poor" definition in Brazil is pretty much starving homeless and the government lowers it everytime they feel like showing off with statistics.
[QUOTE=opti2000;47176553] Poverty in Germany is at it's highest since German reunification
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I read that as "Poverty is at its highest since German unification" and was about to give a history lesson about the value of the reichmark in the 30's. But I'll skip the darn thing.
[QUOTE=The Saiko;47177885]Haha we had this exact example in our statistics class on how a lot of statistics are outright idiotic.
By using their method poverty can rise while people's wages are also rising. Just to put this into perspective, people living in poverty in germany are people who earn less than 1232€ a month.
Fucking stupid way to define poverty.[/QUOTE]
Of course, that rather depends on cost of living though. If cost of living is high then you can still be in poverty despite earning an amount of money that appears high.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't what Germany considers poverty pretty much the same living standard as what's considered lower class in the US?
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