{"id":2656,"date":"2018-05-28T16:10:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T13:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/?p=2656"},"modified":"2023-08-02T18:09:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:09:05","slug":"in-greek-economy-s-vicious-cycle-workers-lose-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/in-greek-economy-s-vicious-cycle-workers-lose-most\/","title":{"rendered":"In Greek economy&#8217;s vicious cycle, workers lose most"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-el\">\u0395\u03b3\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b8\u03ad\u03c3\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b1 <a href=\"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\" class=\"qtranxs-available-language-link qtranxs-available-language-link-en\" title=\"English\">English<\/a>. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language.<\/p><p><strong>In Greek economy&#8217;s vicious cycle, workers lose most<\/strong><br \/>\nJohn Psaropoulos<br \/>\naljazeera.com<br \/>\n<em>May 28, 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><strong>Athens, Greece\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Out of money and out of time, Alexandros Mnimatidis is a product of his generation. He cannot afford to attend the robotics degree programme he enrolled in because he also needs to work and contribute to his parents&#8217; household budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">But without that degree, it&#8217;ll be difficult for him to rise above the retail work he now does for $4.78 an hour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;At the present rate,&#8221; he says, &#8220;it&#8217;ll take me another 10 years to graduate. I&#8217;ll be 35, and at that age, it&#8217;ll be really difficult to find a job in my area of expertise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If he fails to obtain a university education, Mnimatidis may eventually join the ranks of Greece&#8217;s working poor &#8211; people who cannot improve their socioeconomic position, no matter how hard they work.<\/p>\n<p>During the eight-year depression that cost\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/greece.html\">Greece<\/a>\u00a0a quarter of its economy, workers paid the highest price, absorbing much of the impact of economic reforms that raised Greek competitiveness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/180528_AlJazeera.pdf\">Download Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/05\/greek-economy-vicious-cycle-workers-lose-180528063627556.html\">Read Article at Aljazeera.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0395\u03b3\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03ae \u03b4\u03b9\u03b1\u03b8\u03ad\u03c3\u03b9\u03bc\u03b7 \u03c3\u03c4\u03b1 English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8],"tags":[3254,3260],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-press-articles","tag-references","tag-references-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2658,"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2656\/revisions\/2658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2656"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hardouvelis.gr\/el\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}