Every fifth person in Germany (22.4 percent) has too little money to afford a one-week vacation once a year. This emerges from data that the chairman of the left-wing parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Dietmar Bartsch, requested from the European statistical agency Eurostat.

Especially among people with children, the statistical risk that they cannot afford a week of vacation increases significantly. Four out of ten single parents (42.2 percent) do not have enough money for that. For couples, the risk of poverty rises with the number of children. An 18.1 percent of couples with one child cannot afford a seven-day vacation. With three or more children, the rate rises to 29.4 percent.

Couples without children with one partner older than 65 have the lowest risk of poverty. In this group, 15.9 percent of people do not have money for a vacation.

– Summer vacation is travel time. For millions of children and families, this is unfortunately only a distant dream. The fact that many single parents and families lack money even for the shortest trip shows that we must do more for children and families in our country. Every child and every family should once a year have the opportunity to get away from their own four walls, recharge their batteries, and experience something new, Dietmar Bartsch said.

We should think about this and find a solution so that inflation does not further worsen the problem. Inflation will further increase the gap between those who will go on vacation and those who will stay at home. Instead of continuously restraining wages, in the current crisis we need a strong wage solution and quick basic security for children. Children have only one childhood, Bartsch added.

Source: fenix-magazin.de