Al-Jazeera Video: Egypt government targets bread subsidies
"With around 40 percent of the people in Egypt living on $2 a day or less, cheap bread is a social subsidy this country still cannot function without.
There are many people in Egypt who do live on bread alone some days and very little more. Egypt's economy, post-revolution, is in deep trouble, as prices for all the basics are up; fuel and food. Unemployment is rising, and so is poverty.
The Egyptian government is running out of money, so it is seeking a loan from the International Monetary Fund, and it wants to make cuts, including rationing public bread and cutting and changing payments to those who make it.
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