While the rich at Davos are imagining ways to make the world even more unequal and German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble demands from the Greek Prime Minister more doses of the same medicine that has destroyed the Greek economy, living conditions for the majority of Greek citizens in poor neighborhoods across the country resemble those of a nation at war.
According to a research conducted by Citizen’s Advocate and published in the Greek newspaper Eleftheros Typos, one out of five people living in poor neighborhoods go to soup kitchens for their daily food intake, three out of ten no longer have access to heat and hot water, while one of four people live in apartment complexes that haven’t turned on the heat since 2010.
In the poor neighborhoods of Athens and the Attica district, one out of five people have no telephone lines while three out of ten do not have access to internet.
In Greece, the size of the middle class has shrank considerably since the onset of the crisis, to the point that the numbers of the poor and the working poor have surged dramatically.
In recent years as one in five Greeks are experiencing severe material deprivation.
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