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Henry M. Robert

Who Will Count All the Poor and Homeless?

13 November, 2012 - 00:00

The Kyiv State Administration has decided to set up a city social monitoring service. It is being formed, and counting all those officially considered below the subsistence level will be the responsibility of regional and district social protection departments. Such homeless and helpless will be taken care of at homes for the elderly. We hope.

“We are still working on getting our homelessness statistics in conformity with international standards,” says Lidiya Kachan, head of the Social Policy and Labor Ministry’s press service. “So far we have determined those who need help proceeding from family budget indices. Last year’s official statistics showed 25.7% of the populace below this margin. In the fourth quarter of 1997 it was 48.1%.”

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