Risk of poverty greater in Portugal, February 18, 2012, The Portugal News: “The risk of poverty is greater in Portugal compared to the rest of Europe, with one in four Portuguese living with the threat of poverty and social exclusion in 2010, according to statistics published by Eurostat this month in Brussels. Despite the risk of poverty having increased in Europe between 2009 and 2010, the average in the EU’s 27 countries is 23.4 percent risk of poverty, while in Portugal it is over 25 percent. According to the European statistics agency, 25.3 percent of Portuguese were at risk of poverty in 2010, 0.4 percent more than during the previous year. In total, throughout Europe, 115 million people lived at risk of poverty in 2010…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty