[HIGHLIGHTS] Report: More than one in five children affected by poverty

Report: More than one in five children affected by poverty. Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Brandenburg have the lowest poverty rates.

Saarland, Saxony-Anhalt, Hamburg and North Rhine-Westphalia have the highest. Bremen comes last with a rate of 29.1 percent. And observation shows: Germany is drifting apart. Poorer states would become poorer and richer states would becoming richer. The basic child benefit must be “40 percent higher’s compared to the citizen's benefit rates’.