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.
Greek is also the language in which many of the foundational texts in science, especially astronomy, mathematics and logic, and Western philosophy, such as the Platonic dialogues and the works of Aristotle, are composed in; the New Testament of the Holy Bible was written in KoinÃ© Greek.