A person asks for financial help with a sign saying "For food" in Moenckebergstraße, which is decorated for Christmas. Due to high rents and related housing costs, more people in Germany are living in ...

Almost one in six people in Germany lives in poverty. This is the headline finding in the Poverty Report 2019 prepared by the organisation Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband (Joint Welfare Association).

More than 13 million people in Germany were afflicted by poverty in 2019, pushing the poverty rate to 15.9 percent, the highest measured poverty rate since reunification thirty years ago. These ...