2022 The last few years have been extremely difficult for Lithuania and the world. One crisis after another – the COVID-19 pandemic, the migrant crisis, rising energy prices, and the…
2022 2022 will be the year of the war in Ukraine.Not only the enormous numbers of people who are killed, injured and suffer enormous psychological damage, also the enormous economic…
2021 In 2011, as part of the implementation of the EU 2020 Strategy, the Polish Government assumed that by 2020, the number of Poles living in poverty would be 1.5…
2022 After two years of the pandemic, there is an increase in the at-risk-of-poverty rate at the national level. A clear sign that the pandemic has worsened the social and…
Romania has still both the highest poverty rate and the lowest relative poverty line1 of all EU member states. In 2017 to 2019 23.5% of the total resident population was…
2022 These past few years, full of misery and terror, the Slovakia Anti-Poverty Network has focused on strengthening the physical and mental health of the most affected groups: Seniors excluded…
2022 Key findings of this year’s report: NGOs, which deal with people in vulnerable situations daily, are noticing combined poverty as a consequence of several factors, which are not being properly…
2022 The Covid-19 pandemic widened the social and economic gap in Spain. Data from the Survey of Living Conditions published by the National Statistics Institute (INE) in June 2022 show an increase…
UK income and wealth inequality are high and wealth inequality is rising. London is the richest city in the UK, but has the highest concentrations of people in poverty, and…
The Icelandic system of social benefits is a myriad of different systems that don’t always work together, but when they do, it seems to rather work to benefit the system…