Gross misjudgment by Green Party leader Ricarda Lang – faux pas reignites discussion about pensions. More and more seniors are at risk of poverty in old age, despite decades of work.
Women are particularly often affected because, on average, they spend less time working and earn less. According to Lang, the increasing costs of care are a main reason why “in many cases there is hardly anything left of the pension,” as she tells the Berliner Morgenpost.