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Crisis - Austerity in Portugal

A meal is prepared by a church charity worker in a soup kitchen in Vila Real, a small town in Northern Portugal. 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. 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 should people depend on private enterprise, interest lobbies and charities food and basic public services and if the state should be deresponsabilized in providing services and social security, in principle, already paid by taxpayers. The growing of charities in Europe are barometers showing how crippled the economy is and how governments and public services are failing taxpayers and society as a whole.

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Crisis - Austerity in Portugal
A meal is prepared by a church charity worker in a soup kitchen in Vila Real, a small town in Northern Portugal. 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. 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 should people depend on private enterprise, interest lobbies and charities food and basic public services and if the state should be deresponsabilized in providing services and social security, in principle, already paid by taxpayers. The growing of charities in Europe are barometers showing how crippled the economy is and how governments and public services are failing taxpayers and society as a whole.
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