the streets many are trying to keep their heads above water as launching a street vendors like yai acosta who sells fruit in the copacabana district he lost his job as a cook more than a year ago that isn't what i want to many stores here in rio have had to close because of the crisis. or they've been forced to lay off most of the stuff you want to say now i sell fruit on the street or ice cream on the beach. but when i say the price of each homeless people aren't every corner they live in deep poverty in two thousand and seventeen unemployment was the highest in decades with some fourteen million brazilians officially out of work but the true figure is much higher the economic decline has now reached virtually all segments of society real estate agent clovis gomez is also feeling the pinch and the veins in me