DGB NRW Calls for Paradigm Shift in Financial Policy to Address State’s Infrastructure and Services Shortage

DGB NRW Calls for Paradigm Shift in Financial Policy to Address State’s Infrastructure and Services Shortage

On the occasion of today’s hearing on the NRW state budget for 2024, Anja Weber, chairwoman of the DGB NRW, is calling for a paradigm shift in financial policy: “North Rhine-Westphalia is increasingly living off its substance: Broken roads and railways, dilapidated schools, too few daycare places, a lack of living space and underfunded hospitals … Read more

Trigger Points: Exploring Social Divisions in Germany

Trigger Points: Exploring Social Divisions in Germany

Is Germany developing into a divided society? A Berlin research team has examined the “trigger points”, those particularly controversial hot topics and central conflict lines of inequality that promote polarization. Thomas Gesterkamp spoke to the sociologist Steffen Mau, one of the authors involved. Steffen Mau, born in 1968, is professor of macrosociology at Berlin’s Humboldt … Read more