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Germany: Social Security Failing to Protect Rights | Human Rights Watch | Text Version (text.hrw.org)

submitted 4 days ago by melp to c/news

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Social security failures coupled with structural gender inequality leave many people in Germany mired in poverty, especially single-parent families and older women.

Major gaps remain in the world’s third richest country between the amount of social security support received and the poverty risk threshold.

The parties in coalition talks should prioritize strengthening social security protections and addressing longstanding structural barriers to gender equality.

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[–] einkorn@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The parties in coalition talks should prioritize strengthening social security protections

If you expect any of that from those two party you haven't been paying attention.

While the SPD carries 'Socialist' in it's name they are responsible for some of the biggest cuts to social security during the 2000s. The CDU has been railing against 'Sozialschmarotzer' for years now and the 'Christian' C is only a fig leaf at this point.

[–] Powderhorn 2 points 4 days ago

CDU/CSU weren't even nominally Christian in the '90s. It was weird to live somewhere with a secular party with "Christian" in the name and then come home to the beginnings of christofascism under the veneer of secularism. Strange times we live in.

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