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More poor people in Germany

(Reuters)
Updated: 2006-10-17 09:14

A boy eats a bowl of rice at a soup kitchen for people on low incomes in Berlin October 16, 2006. The number of poor people in Germany has risen to 6.5 million or 8 percent of the country's total population of 82.5 million, the press cited on Monday from a study by the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, a non-profit philanthropic organisation which is close to the co-governing Social Democratic Party. [Reuters]