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The Rise of Poverty

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April 17, 2013

Karin Dietrich can’t manage on her tiny pension and relies on a local food bank to put food on her table. Ute Romanjuk is unemployed and a single parent of five children. She gets social assistance but it’s not enough to feed her family. Like many in Germany, the two women struggle to make ends meet.

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