Coronavirus: DK Calls for Vaccination for Disadvantaged People The opposition Democratic Coalition has called on the government to help disadvantaged people receive vaccination against the coronavirus without delay.... 2021.04.12.
Ministry: Number of Severely Poor People in Hungary Plunges over Past Ten Years The proportion of people living in extreme poverty in Hungary has dropped from 23.4 percent to 8.7 percent in the... 2021.02.19.
Hungarian Press Roundup: George Clooney Criticizes Orbán Gov’t A left-wing pundit thinks that US actor George Clooney is right in calling the Hungarian government a textbook example of... 2020.11.26.
DK Urges Assistance for Europe’s Poor The European Union "must remember its most vulnerable, those with no prospects" when it plans for recovery after the coronavirus... 2020.10.22.
Orbán Lists 11 Hungarian Companies That Stack Up Well Internationally When questioned in Parliament on the government's alleged failure to help create Hungarian companies that could compete with multinational corporations,... 2020.10.20.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Dispute over Household Savings and Spending Pro-government economists praise the government for incentivizing domestic spending. A left-wing analyst, on the other hand, fears that Hungarian families... 2020.09.05.
Gov’t Cuts Support for Organizations Helping Underprivileged Children The government halved the funding of two important organizations engaged in running integrative schools and helping underprivileged children in the... 2020.09.03.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Sceptical Opinions on the Chances of the Left A left-wing commentator calls on the opposition to boycott the 2022 Parliamentary election. An alt-left blogger thinks that in the... 2020.06.29.
Audit Office: Fewer People Living in Poverty in Hungary Hungary's State Audit Office (ÁSZ) on Friday called government policies aimed at lifting people out of poverty between 2010 and... 2020.06.27.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Supreme Court Upholds Compensation for Segregated Roma Pro-government commentators scorn the Kúria (the Hungarian Supreme Court) for upholding the cash compensation for the mostly Roma children who... 2020.05.14.
Coronavirus: MSZP to Donate 12 Tonnes of Food to Epidemic-hit Families The Socialists are distributing nearly 12 tonnes of food among families hit by the effects of the novel coronavirus epidemic,... 2020.04.27.
Coronavirus – LMP: Many Households Already Experiencing Hunger LMP has called for urgent help in order to curb a "serious social crisis" unfolding due to the state of... 2020.04.17.
Coronavirus – Párbeszéd: Gov’t Ignores Coming Social Crisis The government's stimulus package is "insufficient" to offset the economic impact of the novel coronavirus epidemic, a Párbeszéd lawmaker said... 2020.04.09.
Coronavirus: LMP Urges Help to ‘Most Vulnerable’ The government's measures are insufficient to help the "most vulnerable" in society and avoid a welfare crisis, opposition LMP co-leader... 2020.04.08.
WEF: Social Mobility in Hungary One of the Worst in EU Social mobility in Hungary is one of the worst in the EU, according to the latest report from the World Economic... 2020.01.30.
DK Blames Gov’t for Increasing Income Gap The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) has blamed the government for a widening gap between Hungary's poor and rich. Gergely Arató,... 2020.01.15.
Gov’t Aims to Reach 85% of Average EU GDP per Capita by 2030 The Hungarian government will continue to reduce unemployment and increase wages because "there is no other way to eliminate poverty",... 2020.01.09.
Hungary’s Poverty at All Time Low The number of people living in severe material deprivation in Hungary is at an all-time low as reflected by the... 2019.05.13.
LMP: Number of Working Poor Rises Drastically in Hungary The number of people with jobs living in poverty has doubled in the past seven years in Hungary to nearly... 2018.11.21.
Govt Falsifying Statistics to Cover up Poverty, Socialists Claim The opposition Socialists claim the government is trying to cover up "severe poverty" and growing regional inequalities by falsifying statistics.... 2018.09.24.
Hungary Leader in Fighting Poverty – Eurostat The number of poor declined to an all-time low in Hungary from 2012 to 2016, a labour market expert told... 2018.08.13.
