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[InTime News]

A large part of Greek society (combining various indicators and statistics, one can estimate it's approximately a third of it) is having difficulty making ends meet. If in previous years poverty was linked to unemployment, today the "strong" Greek economy is massively producing the newly poor - people who are poor or penniless even though they have a job. The poverty and social exclusion indicators are in the deep red.

The situation tends to become explosive, as destitution faces the daily, unabashed, excessive consumption amid rampant corruption, while the meager purchasing power of salaried employees (due to the tacit abolition of collective bargaining agreements by powerful employers) is further undermined through the disintegration of the health system, the existing degradation of public education at all its levels and the lack of basic infrastructure.

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