crisis in Greece was manifest. In 2014 unemployment reached close to 27 percent. More than half of Greece’s young people were out of work, and whereas they might once have drawn on their families for support, the main breadwinner all too often had lost his or her source of income too. By 2015 half of the population was relying on the pension income of a senior citizen to get by, an alarming statistic given that half the pensions paid to senior citizens were below the poverty level.
