State aid reduced homelessness, but not poverty

Those under 17 add up to a little more 13 million throughout the country. From here it follows that Ay 7.2 million girls, boys and adolescents what They live in poor homes, because these families have inferior income than those of a basic basket. And of that total 1.7 million live in destitution because in their homes income fails to acquire a basic food basket.

Thus, of the 17 million urban poor at the national level, 40% are under 17 years. And of every 10 boys and young people of that age, between 5 and 6 years they live in poor homes.

Logically, Without social aid such as universal child allocation (AUH) or the feed card and other plans, Omercity and poverty would be much superiorwhile setting the limits of social plans.

The province of Chaco leads the “ranking” with 80.6%, of the poor followed by Salta with 67.7%and Santiago del Estero with 66.8%. On the other point are (41.8%) and City of Buenos (24.7%). In the province of Buenos Aires it is 54.8%.

The boys and young people are in that situation despite the collection by the families of the Universal Assignment for Children (AUH) that covers 4.3 million boys and adolescents, the food card, and other social plans.

Between September 2024 and the same month of 2023, the AUH the AUH rose from $ 17,093 in September 2023 to $ 84,275 in the same month of 2024: an increase of 393% versus an interannual inflation of 209%. And the food card was reinforced and expanded – they began to be implemented in 2020 – to reach up to children under 17.

Despite denying the subsidies of the EstadOr, the declared objective of the Government was to increase the AUH and the feed card -Considerate “Social Rights” – to take them to the value of the basic food baskets of children and adolescents in order to impact the measurement of destitution and marginally In poverty.

But They almost did not alter poverty due to the increase in unemployment and the fall in families’ income, especially among the homes of informal workers, of the public sector, with social plans and unemployment insurance, which saw their purchasing powers reduce.

The figures correspond to the microdates of the Third quarter 2024 of INDEC processed by the specialist Martín Rozada. In these measurements, it was incorporated into the localities of the interior of each province with more than 2,000 inhabitants, where salary and income levels and precariousness and informality are generally higher than those of large cities or agglomerates.

This dimension of child and youth poverty crawls decades ago, worsened by the 2018/2019 recession and the deterioration of income from pandemic and quarantine and then by inflationary acceleration.

These indicators confirm that child and youth poverty has a structural character, marks a present reality and is a poverty reproduction factor. Because the boy and young man who is born and develops with food deprivations, housing, health or education has a committed future. And also the whole society.

The poor boy or teenager is because their parents are. This means that most boys and adolescents live in households sustained by unemployed, precarious formal workers or with low and informal salaries, subocupados and accounts who also work in informality, without the coverage of social security. All of which expands the persistence and dimension of poverty.