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Crisis - Austerity in Portugal

People wait in line behind a charity food distribution van to receive sandwiches, yogurt and milk. In the recent years people who resort to charity have not only increased but are comprised by not only the homeless, but by families with low income, unemployed, precarious workers and students who's daily meal is sometimes just the one received from the charities' vans. Being this an emergency situation and charities a necessary way to cope with it in the short term, this raises deeper questions in the long run. Many of this questions stem from whether private enterprise, interest lobbies and charities should substitute people's democratic right to access fair job opportunities, dignifying wages and basic public services and if the state should be deresponsabilized in its functions of representativity in providing services and social security, in principle, already insured by taxpayers. The growing number of charities in Europe are now barometers showing how crippled economies are.

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Crisis - Austerity in Portugal
People wait in line behind a charity food distribution van to receive sandwiches, yogurt and milk. In the recent years people who resort to charity have not only increased but are comprised by not only the homeless, but by families with low income, unemployed, precarious workers and students who's daily meal is sometimes just the one received from the charities' vans. Being this an emergency situation and charities a necessary way to cope with it in the short term, this raises deeper questions in the long run. Many of this questions stem from whether private enterprise, interest lobbies and charities should substitute people's democratic right to access fair job opportunities, dignifying wages and basic public services and if the state should be deresponsabilized in its functions of representativity in providing services and social security, in principle, already insured by taxpayers. The growing number of charities in Europe are now barometers showing how crippled economies are.
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