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.
Just one thing. The SPD doesn’t carry socialist in its name, they are social democrats. Capitalists with a veneer of social responsibility (which they haven’t taken serious in decades).