Thursday, 25 July 2013

Emergency Exit: Greeks Flee Country as Government Resorts to Mass Layoffs


Greece entered the world financial crisis in 2008 with less than 10 percent of the country's labor force out of work. Today, more than a quarter of the population is left without jobs and with no apparent chance of getting one. The latest figures from the finance ministry show another 23 percent doesn't earn enough to stay above the poverty line. And, as RT's Egor Piskunov reports, Greeks are now looking elsewhere for their future.