Germany's "working poor"

Germany's economy is booming. The unemployment rate is low. But at the job centres, people keep queuing up.

Many have a job, but they are known as the "working poor":https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working.... They have qualifications, but their badly payed - often part-time - jobs or temp-work don't cover basic needs. Social benefits help top up their income.

Among pensioners, too, poverty is growing. Monika Sagertsch from Berlin is trained as a sales manager but never got a full-time contra…
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