Hordes of young people leave Greece

I traveled to Greece to see the land of my fathers, to see its beauty and its economic crisis firsthand. But as I arrived, others were leaving. Especially Greece’s young people, suffering from unemployment that hovers around 50 percent.“They go to Australia or Turkey or wherever they can find work,” says my first cousin Sophia, a mother of two daughters who is fearful of the future. Εvery day here, as a handful on the hard left throw rocks in the streets, the stories get worse and worse. Many involve young people leaving home.
(16.04.2012) THE KOREA HERALD (by John Kass)
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