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'Holiday poverty' affects 40M workers in EU, finds new study

10 pointsby rustoo10 months ago

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NavinF10 months ago
&gt;New study shows that 39.7 million workers, 14% of the EU’s population, couldn’t afford to go on holiday for a week in 2022.<p>&gt;There are 13 countries where the situation is worse than the bloc’s 14.6% average, with Romania at the tail end at 36%.<p>There&#x27;s no link to the study, but those numbers are pretty much what I&#x27;d expect given the median disposable income in these countries: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income#Median_equivalised_disposable_income" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Disposable_household_and_per_c...</a>