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Poverty December 11, 2018 | 4:58 pm

Crime is the country’s main problem: Govt. poll

Santo Domingo.- 76.6% of households in the Dominican Republic consider that the country's main problem is crime, while 44.6% says unemployment, 28.6% the cost of living and 24.9%, corruption. The figures are in the latest edition of the National Multipurpose Household Survey (ENHOGAR) 2017, released by the National Statistics Office (ONE), a government agency. The survey found that specifica

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