TY - JOUR AU - Schnath, Matthias PY - 2010/09/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Hartz IV oder: Armut anerkannt, gefördert und gefordert JF - PROKLA. Zeitschrift für kritische Sozialwissenschaft JA - PROKLA VL - 40 IS - 160 SE - Einspruch DO - 10.32387/prokla.v40i160.385 UR - https://prokla.de/index.php/PROKLA/article/view/385 SP - 411-416 AB - <p>There is poverty in Germany; it is not only existent, though, but functional as to its competitive impact on the labour-market. By abandoning former social policies relating to the working class and a standard of living for the unemployed, German legislation affirms competition, and thus lasting poverty as a means to its end, while public opinion is occupied with issues of abstract justice beyond the nature of the specific sources of revenue.</p> ER -