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Germany to give Holocaust survivors $236 payout to help them cope with October 7 attacks (edition.cnn.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What a weird reply. Average poverty rate in Israel is 16.9%:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/233910/poverty-rates-in-oecd-countries/

Almost twice as high points towards significant hardships for Holocaust survivors.

Global average is 46.9%, by the way (but Israel is relatively rich, so it doesn't make sense to compare it to most of the world):

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/march-2023-global-poverty-update-world-bank-challenge-estimating-poverty-pandemic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Maybe they should stop all the genocidin' if they want to get out of poverty... can't squeeze money from a stone