Argentina: Surveys indicate 40.8% of the population lives below the poverty line

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A third of Argentine homes and 40.8% of people were below the poverty line at the end of the third quarter according to the Social Debt Observatory from the Argentine Catholic University, UCA, which regularly releases the data. Read full article

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Enrique Massot
Where are now the crowds of fierce MP keyboard warriors who piled up comments on Argentine poverty statistics at the time Cristina Kirchner was president?

They are nowhere to be seen now that their hero, Mauricio Macri, is trotting into the sunset leaving behind an economy in ruins.
Dec 07th, 2019 - 03:38 am - Link - Report abuse -1
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golfcronie
HaHa,It was already in ruins when Macri took office. Thats the trouble with left wing governments they had left the pot empty. Thank God I do not live in Argentina.No-one said Macri was a hero but at least he tried to balance the books,lets give Fernandez a year and we can then reflect on his governance.
Dec 07th, 2019 - 05:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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imoyaro
The figures were doctored under La Asesina, as well you know...

RIQUE! PAYASO! VOS SOS EL MENTIROSO!!
Dec 08th, 2019 - 10:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Enrique Massot
Good for Agustin Silva of the UCA's Social Debt Observatory for proposing a Redistribution Social Plan using 2.9 per cent of Argentina's GDP to help provide jobs to an estimate four million citizens over five years. Initiatives like this one or similar are likely to resonate with upcoming president Alberto Fernandez, who intends to make a 180-degree turn from the current government's policies that in four years managed to increase poverty by 10 per cent.
Dec 09th, 2019 - 04:09 am - Link - Report abuse -1
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