What is POVERTY ?

Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon: it is not simply the lack of financial resources and income, whether through employment or social benefits. It also encompasses the notion of vulnerability, precariousness, lack of opportunities, and denial of rights, such as access to education and health, culture, housing, employment, services and infrastructure, as well as access to information and political participation.

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USEFUL DOCUMENTS

	EU Year 2010 – Contributing to Ending Poverty Amongst Migrants: Report of EAPN’s Conference on Migration & Poverty
	The Europe 2020 Strategy includes, as one of its 5 key targets, a target to reduce poverty by 20 million people, to be delivered through a flagship initiative: the ‘European Platform against Poverty’. Read it here in English, French and Italian.

	Poverty and inequality explainer. This explainer aims to make poverty more visible, understood, and acted on, as part of EAPN’s build-up campaign to 2010: the EU year against poverty. Read more and access the publication in English and French.
	Small Steps – Big Changes is about participation and presents 10 case studies from members of EAPN about the participation of people experiencing poverty and social exclusion. Access to the publication in English, French and Greek here.
	Voices from the Poverty Line: Jobs and unemployment in the EU gives a direct voice to real men and women experiencing poverty on the sharp end of the revised Lisbon Strategy. Discover their story here in English, French and German.

EAPN’s Report on the Social Impact of the Crisis and of the Recovery Package is based on concrete examples, demonstrates that the present crisis is having a cruel impact on the life of the most vulnerable… You can read it in English, French and Bulgarian.