Et l’Allemagne entend donner des leçons à la Grèce.
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Child poverty on the rise in Germany
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Child poverty on the rise in Germany
By Elizabeth Zimmermann
8 March 2012
“There is no cause for celebration. We continue to have a scandalously high level of child poverty in Germany.” These were the words used by Ulrich Schneider, chief executive of the Joint Welfare Association on February 29 in Berlin, to introduce his study “Poor Children, Poor Parents: Families in Hartz IV Welfare.”
The study exposes the claim, made by the federal family minister Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) at the end of January and since spread by the media, that the number of children living in poverty is declining
At the time, the president of the Child Protection Agency, Heinz Hilgers, and Ulrich Schneider from the Joint Welfare Association expressed their own doubts over von der Leyen’s claims. They pointed out that the number of children under 15 has declined in Germany by 750,000 since 2006. This means that a lower absolute number does not necessarily indicate that the poverty rate has decreased.