Germany: Social Security Failing to Protect Rights

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image A woman collecting food from a Tafel-run food bank in Berlin, Germany, while children in strollers look on, July 3, 2023. © 2023 Carsten Koall/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images 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…

Read complete article

~	The TGL golf league might signal that indoor sport is the future, for better or worse

~	Why the Tesla backlash could help electric cars finally go mainstream

~	Three graphs that show what’s happening with Donald Trump’s popularity

~	The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgeson Burnett was an early work of climate fiction

~	Trump’s job cuts are causing Republican angst as all parties face backlash

~	Psychopaths experience pain differently, even when their bodies say otherwise

~	The paradox of weight loss: why losing pounds may not always lead to better health

~	National standards by stealth? Why the government’s latest plan for schools might fail the history test

~	After months of Trump’s shock tactics, whistleblower groups are pushing back against attacks on workers’ rights

~	Modern spacesuits have a compatability problem. Astronauts’ lives depend on fixing it