Hungarian sociologist warns of growing poverty
Some 600,000 people live in hopeless poverty and a further 2-2.5 million face the spectre of sliding back into dire poverty, sociologist Zsuzsa Ferge said Thursday. She told a Budapest conference arranged by the European and Hungarian Anti-Poverty Network that almost 3 million might suffer drastically from next year's price hikes.
Ferge said the rate of poverty among those raising three or more children is 36%, three times higher than the European average.
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