People in occupied Iraq slide into poverty

Socialist Worker

Once it boasted the most advanced health service in the Middle East, an education system that turned out generations of skilled workers and a population that consumed the most books in the Arab world. Now Iraq has sunk into a mass of poverty and despair. It has been destroyed by war and occupation. New figures released by the Iraqi ministry of labour and social affairs show that nearly 5.6 million out of a population of 29 million Iraqis have sunk into poverty since the invasion. Over 40 percent of these people are living in absolute poverty...

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