The poor and the unemployed are politically less interested and active than persons above the poverty line and the … working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany shows above-average levels of inequality of political … participation. Data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) suggest that this inequality has been increasing in the past …

erst in Folge des Jobverlusts und von Armut Betroffene nicht nach dem Einkommensrückgang ihre politische Beteiligung …The poor and the unemployed are politically less interested and active than persons above the poverty line and the … working population. Compared to other European democracies, Germany shows above-average levels of inequality of political …

contrary, declined in real terms. Consequently, income inequality has increased overall, especially in the first half of the … proportion of people at risk of poverty has also recently increased. Gainful employment still provides the most effective … protection against income poverty, but more and more employed persons are at risk of becoming poor. Containment of the low wage …

Armut: Vor allem Berufseinsteiger (25 bis 35 Jahre) sind zunehmend von Armut bedroht. … in the lower income groups. As a result, the inequality of disposable household income in Germany climbed sharply up … until 2005 and has remained at the same high level ever since. At the same time, the risk of poverty in Germany increased …

unterdurchschnittliche Haushaltsnettoeinkommen. Mehr als zwei Drittel der TafelbesucherInnen sind entsprechend von Armut bedroht. Damit die … Tafeln nicht an ihre Grenzen stoßen, ist es zentral, die strukturellen Ursachen von Armut zu bekämpfen. Erhöhte Regelsätze …