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Rudaw visits a family in Baghdad's Sadr city. Seven people live in a two-room house.
The family’s monthly income is less than 100,000 Iraqi dinars (about $84).
"If I or my kids fall, we will not be able to see a doctor and afford prescriptions. We have no income. Other than construction work, my husband cannot do any other jobs," the mother tells Rudaw.
Some 25 percent of people in Iraq live under the poverty line. In areas battered by conflict the figure is 44.2 percent.
Some go to landfills to collect what they can to make ends meet.
The family’s monthly income is less than 100,000 Iraqi dinars (about $84).
"If I or my kids fall, we will not be able to see a doctor and afford prescriptions. We have no income. Other than construction work, my husband cannot do any other jobs," the mother tells Rudaw.
Some 25 percent of people in Iraq live under the poverty line. In areas battered by conflict the figure is 44.2 percent.
Some go to landfills to collect what they can to make ends meet.
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