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Almost one in ten live in poverty in Switzerland: Report

Fri, 19 Feb 2021 10:48:36 +0100

More than eight percent of Switzerland’s population live in poverty, while 12 percent struggle to make ends meet.

Thousands of Swiss locked up just for 'being different' deserve life-long special income: report

Mon, 02 Sep 2019 21:33:13 +0200

Thousands of people locked up arbitrarily in "administrative detention" by Swiss authorities during the 20th century should receive life-long benefits, special investigators have said.

Poverty in Switzerland: 615,000 people below the threshold

Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:50:10 +0200

Around 615,000 Swiss people lived in poverty in 2016, new figures released on Tuesday by Switzerland’s Federal Statistical Office (FSO) show.

Report: half a million live below poverty line in Switzerland

Tue, 16 May 2017 12:36:06 +0200

Seven percent of the Swiss population live below the poverty income threshold in Switzerland, according to the latest report on living conditions in the alpine country.

Foreigner head count nears two million

Fri, 24 Apr 2015 13:25:14 +0200

Immigration continues to boost the Swiss population, which grew to 8,236,600 at the end of 2014, an increase of 96,000 persons (up 1.2 percent) from a year earlier, according to new provisional figures released by the federal statistics office.

'Poverty' afflicts even wealthy Switzerland

Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:20:00 +0100

Living conditions for residents in Switzerland remain among the most favourable in Europe but 13 percent of the population is threatened by poverty, a new report says.

Report: one in 13 Swiss residents 'in poverty'

Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:03:00 +0200

Switzerland may be one of the world's richest nations but as many as one resident in 13 lives in poverty, official data showed on Tuesday.

One in seven Swiss risk poverty: survey

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:03:10 +0100

Nearly 14 percent of people in Switzerland were exposed to the risk of poverty in 2010, according to a survey conducted by the Federal Office of Statistics.

Geneva coalition fights city's begging ban

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0100

A coalition of NGOs and left-wing parties are hoping to gather enough support to change a law allowing police officers in Geneva to fine people who beg for money on the street.