Although the poverty rate experienced a slight decline of 0.3 percentage points between 2017 and 2018, it remains at a high level and has even increased in some regions.

The poverty rate in Germany in the pandemic year 2021 reached 16.6 percent of the population, a new record. This means there are 13.8 living in poverty, 600,000 more than before the pandemic began.

Germany's demographic time bomb is compounded by the fact that those children who are born increasingly grow up in impoverished families hampered by a lack of education, bad nutrition, and poor ...

A project in western Germany helps seniors battle often-overlooked challenges – not just old-age poverty, but also loneliness. “We thought: nobody is interested in old people,” said ...

News Dortmund’s only Jewish mayor died in poverty after a successful career. The German city is reviving his story. Paul Hirsch helped establish the formal borders of Berlin and Dortmund before ...