September 27, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
One in two households in Greece cut food expenses in order to be able to pay their electricity and heating bills, a research conducted by Greece’s Consumers Association EKPOIZO within the framework of the European program “Reverter”, with the cooperation of the Laboratory of Mining Technology and Environmental Mining of …
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April 6, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
I live in a country where a very wealthy Prime Minister who seems to have lost contact with reality and society tries to convince Greeks that “if you live in poverty and are barefoot, you can still smile!” During a visit to Ioannina, Epirus in North-West Greece, on Wednesday, PM …
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October 17, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
A total of 29.5% of the total population (around 3,092,300 people) are simultaneously at risk of poverty or social exclusion, the Hellenic Antipoverty Network said on Monday in its annual report. According to “Poverty Watch Greece 2022”, which uses Hellenic Statistical Authority and other data including the Network’s own questionnaires, …
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October 22, 2020
Economy, FEATURED
Greece has recorded a dramatic increase of people living on a salary below the poverty line: one in eight workers earns 200 euros per month, the annual report of the Labor Institute of private sector union umbrella GSEE has found. “A huge part of the Greek population is at risk …
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June 21, 2019
Economy
The percentage of Greeks at risk of poverty or social exclusion fell by three percentage points to 31.8% in 2018 from 34.8% in 2017, or 3,348,000 persons, Hellenic Statistical Authority said in a report on Friday. The statistics service said that the number of households at risk of poverty totaled …
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January 31, 2019
Social
A high school student was ‘forced’ to do homework outdoors under a street lamp because the family lives in extreme poverty and the Public Power Corporation had cut the electricity supply due to unpaid bills. Both parents are unemployed and they cannot afford much to offer to their three daughters …
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January 24, 2019
Economy
One third of Greek pensioners receives a monthly pension of no more than 500 euros. According to data from the Helios database of the Greek Labor Ministry for August and September 2018, the average monthly pension was 724.18 euros. Supplementary pension was 172.32 euros per month, while dividend paid monthly …
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January 17, 2019
Social, Society
Austerity 2019 in Greece and the silent dramas. People, mostly elderly, who live without electricity and heating. A man was transferred to the hospital of Larissa in Central Greece from his hometown in Farsala. He was diagnosed with serious hypothermia. While the medical staff is doing whatever possible to treat …
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October 17, 2018
Social
Almost four in ten Greeks live in poverty or in social exclusion. According to Eurostat data released on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, 35% of Greeks are poor and more than 20% have “severe material deprivation.” In 2017, 112.9 million people, or 22.5% of the population in …
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December 6, 2017
Social
Greece’s middle class is dwindling and is drifting into into poverty. About 700,000 people are now closer to the poverty line, a new survey has found. Young people aged 16-24 are at highest risk of poverty. According to data provided by the Dianeosis nonprofit think tank, the percentage of people …
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October 24, 2017
Economy
Greece’s government plans to offer handouts worth 1 billion euros to poor Greeks who have suffered during the seven-year debt crisis after beating its budget targets this year. Greece expects to return to nearly 2 percent growth this year and achieve a primary surplus – which excludes debt servicing costs …
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August 25, 2017
Social, Society
They probably thought they had no other choice to escape the appalling conditions in which they have been living for the last five years. They decided to make a very loud noise about their own personal drama in Europe of so-called “Solidarity” in year 2017. Two brothers went on the …
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May 22, 2017
Social, Society
More than 1.2 million Greek pensioners live on less than 500 euros per month. The dramatic income decreases in main and supplementary pension are shown in data released by the System for Pensions Control and Payment “ILIOS“. A 6% deducted also from the low main pensions goes for health care. …
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May 4, 2017
Social
The total humanitarian crisis, poverty and despair: young mom who just gave birth to a child a couple of days ago. A baby just eleven days old and an older child aged fourteen months. They live in absolute poverty in a home without electricity and hot water on the island …
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May 2, 2017
Economy
Greece will lower tax-free threshold to 5,681 euros annual income. The European Union sets the poverty line at 6,000 euro. This is the biggest scandal in the package of additional austerity measures Greece and creditors agreed upon in the early morning hours of Thursday.The second scandal is an additional cut …
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April 23, 2017
Uncategorized
The body of a 86-year-old man was left in a plastic bag on the street for hours after a local funeral house realized the man was poor and there was no money to be paid with. the man had died during a fire in the house he was living in …
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April 19, 2017
Social, Society
After the economic crisis and years of austerity, child poverty is on the rise in wealthy countries, according to Unicef. In Spain, the proportion of children living below the poverty line increased by nine percentage points between 2008 and 2014, to reach almost 40%. In Greece, one in four children …
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April 14, 2017
Economy
Two out of ten Greeks paid 80% of the total income taxes last year. At the same time poverty increases: more than 340,000 households declared zero income for the tax year 2015. Data released on Thursday by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) shows the stifling tax burden and …
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April 13, 2017
Economy
Only Greece has suffered more from austerity that Britain, trade unions charged yesterday as rising inflation and stagnant wages threaten another sharp fall in living standards. Inflation at 2.3 per cent is higher than wage growth of 2.2 per cent — meaning that people’s pay is worth less in real …
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April 2, 2017
Social, Society
A significant decrease of 13% has been recorded in the amount Greek households spend for daily purchases at the country’s supermarkets. This is the logical consequence caused by low wages, high unemployment rates and increased direct and indirect taxes. Factors that have lead to impoverishment of large groups of the …
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