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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Timour Azhari and Laila Bassam

'There is no future': Lebanon's new poor face long-term stagnation

FILE PHOTO: Unemployed Lebanese Hussein Hamadeh gestures as he speaks during an interview with Reuters inside his home in Beirut's southern suburb of Ouzai, Lebanon November 15, 2022. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Unemployed and unable to support his family of four, Hussein Hamadeh, 51, now spends his days trying to find help to weather a protracted economic crisis that some Lebanese fear has become the new norm.

Hamadeh lost his stable job in carpentry and developed an illness that requires expensive medication.

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