, affordability of energy among the poorest should receive increasing attention. Measures of fuel poverty and deprivation with respect …

. Unlike inequality, the risk of poverty has been on the rise again since about 2010. However, this issue needs to be evaluated … inequality and poverty is being increasingly marred by the uncritical representation of discontinuities in the time series as …

by this combined view of households’ resource endowments should be given due consideration when assessing poverty risks. …

until 2005 and has remained at the same high level ever since. At the same time, the risk of poverty in Germany increased … significantly between 2000 and 2009, and is currently at approximately 14 percent. The risk of poverty has risen significantly for … young singles (up to the age of 35) in particular. Their at-risk-of-poverty rate increased by 12 percentage points since …

Which groups have particularly low pension entitlements and are therefore most at risk of poverty in old age …, unemployment, raising children or caring for relatives, all of which result in low pensions. Those who are most at risk of poverty …. In other words, those impoverished while young are most likely to remain impoverished into old age. Poverty among the …

The development of old-age poverty has become an important topic in Germany. Contrary to most studies, a recent report … written by the scientific advisory council at the German Federal Ministry of Economy asserts that old-age poverty will not … problem of old-age poverty, and they plead in favour of further reliable research on the issue. …

The poor and the unemployed are politically less interested and active than persons above the poverty line and the …