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Coping with the crisis in Greece

Joanna KakissisMarch 26, 2014

Four years ago, Greece was forced to take international bailout loans to avert bankruptcy. Those loans came with tough austerity measures that drastically shrank an economy already in recession. Today, almost a third of working-age Greeks are jobless. And another twenty percent have jobs on paper but aren't being paid - some for as many as two years. How do people cope?

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