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Press release No. N 008 of 28 January 2021 3.1 million persons in employment at risk of poverty in Germany in 2019
Many persons in employment have incurred severe income losses due to the coronavirus pandemic, for example because of short-time work. Even before the crisis, employment did not protect all persons in employment from the risk of poverty. The Federal …
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Press release No. 298 of 29 August 2017 Poverty risk still varies between Länder
In terms of the at-risk-of-poverty rate, the poverty risk was lowest in the southern Länder of Baden-Württemberg (11.9%) and Bayern (12.1%) in 2016. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the highest poverty risk in all of Germany was …