(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Our correspondent in Berlin says about 330,000 people are also homeless in the country.
Cansel
Kiziltepe, a Social Democratic Party (SPD) lawmaker, told us, “I want
the government to bear the expenses for existence of a social culture
for homeless, for child poverty, wage poverty, and elderly poverty. All these should be covered by the government.”
Wolfgang Strengmann from the Green Party, also says the current financial crisis has led to a serious social crisis in Germany.
“The
coalition between the poor and the middle class is against the richest
people in the society because at least in Germany it is the middle-class
who is mostly paying for social security while the upper class pays less for it,” Strengmann said.
One out of every three children in the German capital, Berlin, lives on government assistance. The elderly are also affected by poverty since the pensions are not enough to provide for a decent standard of living.
There
are currently around 5,000 homeless people in Berlin. Experts predict
that by 2015, the number would rise by 15 percent due to gentrification
caused by rent increase.
Germany is praised for
having a low number of unemployment. However, only 1.2 percent of those
who receive social assistance already have a job. The government has
implemented a minimum wage of 8.5 euros per hour in an attempt to address the issue of joblessness.
Latest
figures by Germany’s Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) show that
the number of impoverished Germans is steadily increasing in the
country. According to the statistics, 16.1 percent of the German
population or approximately 13 million people run the risk of plunging
into relative poverty. (http://www.abna.ir/)
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