We start with good news. Relatively good, let’s say: poverty in Spain has fallen below 20% for the first time since 2008, the year that the great recession began, according to the survey on living conditions published every year by the National Statistics Institute.
The small print of the data, however, reveals a sad exception. Child poverty does not follow the same path; On the contrary, it continues to rise. 28.9% to 29.2%. It doesn’t matter if there is economic growth, which rains or thunders, “children remain the great losers,” they regretted when knowing the data in UNICEF.
Then we put our hands to our heads and ask ourselves how it can be.
From this, several considerations. On the one hand, the hole that causes paying for rent is increasingly deep and dark. It does not explain everything, but a part of why the poverty figure remains so scandalously high, as can be detached from the data published this week. Here are some graphics To understand much better this I tell you. Delays in housing payments are higher in families with sons and daughters.
If you live the day to day with tweezers, Paying monthly payment makes you cross the poverty line. A report a year ago says that one in four children Live in a home with problems to assume the rent. And being poor, speaking badly and soon, it is not harmless to health, we already know it. That is why the figures had to be in this newsletter.
There are dozens of studies that link a low income with more obesity (ultraprocess food is much cheaper than fresh food), more revenues in hospitals, worse mental health, more drug use … list could be much longer. I don’t tell you if you live with your parents and your brothers in a single room or if your house has no natural light.
Solutions? Childhood organizations are tired of asking for a universal benefit as a child, which is for everyone and does not depend on the income level. This, although it may seem not, makes sense: it exists in 20 of the 27 countries of the European Union and is the way to arrive more effectively to the poorest homes. In this article I explain it to you in more detail If you feel like delving a little more.
However, the thing does not start even though it is a commitment to add up and that the Ministry of Social Rights has been doing months and shovel doing pedagogy. Will it be achieved before the legislature ends?
While you were other things …
- Tobacco damage goes beyond what you imagine: that children are exposed as little ones Leave marks in your DNA very similar to those that smokers have.
- Genital bacteria could serve to identify sexual aggressors when there are no sperm remains (and provided there has been penetration). Here the study.
Two good things
We have the first national plan for suicide prevention. It was approved this Friday in the Ministry of Health with the support of all communities. In 2024, 3,952 people in Spain were taken away and there are serious difficulties in addressing the problem: institutions lack much information to take measures against suicidal behavior, there is no sometimes the continuity in the care that people need in this situation in this situation –Teampocus for family and friends– and falters the coordination between resources. To all this the new plan wants to reach out with measures that will have to be implemented by the Autonomous Communities and will need financing.
Another thing that I rescue this week is the reform of the laws of dependence and disability. Rather, the first step to modify them because at the moment only a draft law has been approved in the Council of Ministers. As is the parliamentary arithmetic, namely. The reform has many articles that We have summarized here. Eye, the Ministry of Social Rights recognizes that this is not the magical wand to solve the waiting lists and the precariousness of some benefits.
We keep counting next week. Thanks for getting to the end.
Sofia
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