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A woman hugs her boyfriend as artists protest against the COVID-19 specific measures that affect attendance at performances, outside the Labor Ministry in Athens, Monday, Sept. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) 3/17/2021 The National Herald
ATHENS - While Greece’s singers, dancers, artists, musicians and others in the arts sector largely going unsupported during a more than year-long COVID-19 pandemic, street sellers of a magazine about the homeless will get a benefit.
The New Democracy government’s Labor and Social Security Ministry said vendors selling the magazine Sxedia (Raft,) most of whom were homeless or at risk of being so would get a retroactive 534-euro ($636) for January and February.
State OKs 2-month extraordinary stipend to sellers of street mag set up to combat homelessness
Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:59
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Greece s relevant labor and social security ministry this week announced that the state will allocate a 534-euro monthly stipend, separately for the months January and February 2021, to the vendors selling the street magazine Sxedia (pronounced schedia ), most of whom were once homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.
According to the relevant minister, a joint ministerial decision will be published this week in the government gazette. Minister Costis Hatzidakis met on Monday with a delegation of the newspaper sellers and representatives of the NGO Diogenes, which publishes the periodical.