Only about two percent of people were chronically poor under the supplemental measure, compared with 3.3 percent under the official rate. This is important, because research shows that chronic poverty does the most long-term harm to people, especially children.
Greek is the official language of Greece, where it is spoken by almost the entire population. It is also the official language of Cyprus (nominally alongside Turkish). Because of the membership of Greece and Cyprus in the European Union, Greek is one of the organization's 24 official languages.
Words from Greek. The words in this list are all related to words that were used 2500 years ago! English gets an important part of its vocabulary from the language of ancient Greece. Classical Greek, as it is called, is quite different from but closely related to the language spoken in Greece today.