The basic food basket (CBA) for a “type” family exceeded 59.4% to the minimum, vital and mobile salary (SMVM) during April. For the next months a deepening of this gap is expected.
This was reflected in an analysis Isaac Rudnik, national director of the Institute for Social, Economic and Political Research Citizen (ISECCI). CBA data arise from a Survey of 57 products that the ISPCI performs monthly in merchants in the proximity of popular neighborhoods of the Buenos Aires Conurbano.
According to the institute, these goods increased 3.05% last month, so a family of two adults and two young children, needed $ 481,349.79 to acquire its indispensable basic diet. In parallel, The SMVM was $ 302,000.
At the last meeting of Vital and Mobile Minimum Salary Councilunions, entrepreneurs and government officials failed to agree on the value of these minimal remuneration. Therefore, this definition was in the hands of the Executive Power.
In April alone, the CBT rose 67% more than what will increase the minimum wage until August
Under this guideline, For May there will be an increase of 1.8%, and until August the increase will accumulate 6.5%. “This means that four months later, in August, workers who charge the minimum will receive $ 19,400 more than in April. Only in this last month the CBA increased $ 14,248.77 and the total basic basket (CBT) that also the basic food months, “Rudnik explained.
“If both the boss and the head of the home have the ‘luck’ of having both a registered job- even with the minimum salary- with $ 604,000 of income at home they would be covering the value of the CBA, then being above the indigence line. But they would be far from reaching $ 1,097,477.54 to which the CBT amounts to, so they would be below the poverty line“He deepened.
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The survey cited showed that The main increases in food were seen in meatsleaving an average variation of 9.8%. Particularly increased increases in roast (17.14%); minced meat (10.39%); Milanesas (14.15%) and fish (14.29%).
“The inflationary process is far from being a definitive descending slope. The model settled in the delay of the value of the dollar, the restriction of domestic consumption and the unrestricted opening of the economy, so far, has failed to consolidate a constant reflux of the rises in the main products of mass consumption. The increases granted to the minimum vital and mobile salary for the coming months- about $ 5,000 per month on average- while the government states that there is recovery of the purchasing power of remuneration, they sound more like mockery than argument that deserves to be debated, “said Rudnik.
Source: Ambito
