One in five children in Germany was affected by poverty in 2022, according to a report by the German welfare association Paritätische Wohlfahrtsverband. At 21.8% of all children and young people, this was a “sad record,” Ulrich Schneider, managing director of the association, explained at the presentation of the poverty report in Berlin on Tuesday. A total of 14.2 million people in Germany were poor in 2022 – a rate of 16.8%. That is 100,000 more people than in 2021 and almost 1 million more than in the pre-pandemic year of 2019, said Schneider. Compared to 2006, the number has risen by 2.7 mi…