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Dealing with poverty
 Macedonia is asking itself – how to get by on 150 denars a day?Every fourth citizen of Macedonia has only 150 denars a day to get by. Unemployment has reached a record number of 400.000 unemployed. According to the statistics, in Macedonia there are 250.000 pensioners and 60.000 of them are trying to get by on 5.200 denars per month. Eighty thousand Macedonian families receive social help. Poverty follows households where breadwinners are pensioners, people who have been made redundant and unemployed. In comparison with the East European countries, only Albania and Moldavia live more poorly than us.
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