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Portugal “already has 500,000 working poor”, reports Jornal de Notícias, noting that within the working population, the 20% highest-paid earn 6.1 times more than the 20% on the lowest wages. These figures were released on 2 December by the independent Greek Observatory of Inequalities. This social inequality studyalso reveals that 12% of the working population don’t make enough to provide their families with decent living conditions and that 23% of under-18’s live below the poverty line, 5% more than the figure for the population as a whole.
In 2007, Latvia was the only country in the EU 27 with a worse showing, while Romania and Bulgaria were on a par with Portugal. At the other extreme, the Nordic countries, Slovenia and Slovakia proved the most egalitarian.
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