A report issued by the European Union’s statistics office shows nearly a quarter of the European population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
Eurostat recently published the data revealing that 124.5 million people, or 24.8 percent of Europe’s population, had been at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2012, compared to 23.7 percent in 2008.
The numbers included those deemed to fall within at least one of the following three conditions: at risk of income poverty, severely materially deprived or living in households with very low work intensity .... http://www.presstv.ir
