Strong message from a sector of the Church: “The rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor who are getting poorer”

During the 35th National Meeting carried out in the province of Córdoba, they understood that “The transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich is becoming more evident every day.:while they lower taxes for the richest, they take away free medicines from PAMI, they veto the increase for retirees and they continue not delivering food to the soup kitchens.”

“While unemployment is growing, slave labor is encouraged within the framework of an anti-union and scandalous labor reform; it is evident that The rich are getting richer at the expense of the poor who are getting poorer; the State is destroyed, which should guarantee a minimum of life, health, education, hope for all, prioritizing children and the elderly,” continues the document, where it considers that the government supports its measures with “a discourse of hate and systematic racism.”

On this last point, they pointed out that “violence, generated from the same official speeches, does not contribute in any way to the construction of a homeland of brothers and sisters, and is emboldened as repressive violence against just social demandsto sustain this model of injustice, cruelty and death.” “We have a government that despises public education, cuts teacher salaries and “defunds universities”they add.

They also point out the following against the previous management: “Much of the current despair comes from the certain disappointment, caused by those who promised to ‘come back better’, but gradually abandoned the commitments they made. shielded behind a permanent ‘it can’t be done’ because supposedly the balance of power did not allow it.”

Finally, they offer to “be in solidarity with their pain; it is up to us to be a thinking heart in the midst of injustice and hatred” and point out that “we dream of meeting to cry and celebrate together, even if we are different; to be a community and a people”.

Poverty rose to 52% in the first half of the year, according to UCA data

According to data revealed by the Argentine Social Debt Observatory of the Argentine Catholic University (ODSA-UCA), the Poverty affected 52% of the Argentine population, while 17.9% lived in extreme poverty during the first half of the year. These are the highest values ​​since 2004.

These numbers correspond to the first half of the year, and show a increase of 41.7% and 11.9% respectively, with what was published by the INDEC last year. In addition, the calculation reflects an average between the first two quarters of the year, where the ODSA highlighted that the poverty reached the 54.9% in January, February and March, while a 49.4% was reached in April, May and June.

In the case of the indigencehe 20.3% of the population was in that state during the first period, and at 15.9% in the second. It should be noted that the data comes from the Permanent Household Survey (EPH).