Retirees help out their crisis-hit kids

Record-high unemployment across southern Europe led relatively prosperous retirees to provide an informal safety net, via their pensions, for their children, in order to fight widespread poverty.

• Primary Source

ESO: Background information: Charity documents 'human cost' of EU austerity http://www.europeansources.info/record/charity-documents-human-cost-of-eu-austerity/

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