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

• NavinF 2y ago
  >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. >There are 13 countries where the situation is worse than the bloc’s 14.6% average, with Romania at the tail end at 36%. There's no link to the study, but those numbers are pretty much what I'd expect given the median disposable income in these countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_capita_income#Median_equivalised_disposable_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_household_and_per_c...