{"id":107384,"date":"2024-09-27T05:38:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T22:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107384"},"modified":"2024-09-27T05:38:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T22:38:47","slug":"argentinas-poverty-rate-spikes-in-first-6-months-of-president-mileis-shock-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107384","title":{"rendered":"Argentina&#8217;s poverty rate spikes in first 6 months of President Milei&#8217;s shock therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) \u2014 Argentina\u2019s poverty rate jumped from almost 42% to 53% during the first six months of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-milei-budget-congress-economy-inflation-c83178217097093d476fab94429768a4\">Javier Milei\u2019<\/a><\/span> s presidency, the statistics agency reported Thursday, a steep rise reflecting the pain of the country\u2019s most intense austerity program in recent memory. <\/p>\n<p>The government\u2019s finding that Argentina\u2019s half-year <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-economy-cuts-devaluation-dollar-186d74647d28c02572070d0ee973819f\">poverty rate in 2024<\/a><\/span> had surged to its highest level since 2003, when the country was reeling from a catastrophic foreign debt default and currency devaluation, marks a setback for the far-right economist. So far, foreign investors and the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/milei-argentina-imf-bailout-economy-funds-b3b82978d3971ce6148f6f26f2d8e97b\">International Monetary Fund<\/a><\/span> \u2014 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/general-news-07788fb253340a958b187f01c5bb4c23\">to which Argentina owes<\/a><\/span> $43 billion \u2014 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-congress-milei-senate-protests-vote-reform-854202d5c18bc862f3cdbc27bf6cae35\">have cheered his controversial fiscal shock therapy<\/a><\/span> that has succeeded in pulling down the country\u2019s monthly inflation from 25.5% last December to <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-inflation-economy-dollar-peso-black-market-libertarian-milei-d288baeae4410265bdef5e244b2c8e56\">4.2%<\/a><\/span> in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina\u2019s inflation, now <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-bank-note-economy-milei-libertarian-inflation-crisis-central-bank-53f03d3ec65497726eeeb83c0a7022a1\">running at more than 230% annually<\/a><\/span>, is among the worst in the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-edge-to-edge=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-6e0000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-large-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" 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src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/fb8293e\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4000x3000+0+0\/resize\/599x449!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F8b%2F60%2Fb21b8136aa703f2f1c70b3dbb576%2F65da7fa077ff492c8c7958617dc74cdb\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div class=\"Figure-content\">\n<div class=\"Figure-content-text\"><bsp-read-more class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\">\n<p>Residential buildings are covered in color in Barrio 31, a working poor neighborhood in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo\/Natacha Pisarenko)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bracing for negative news hours before the poverty report\u2019s release, Milei\u2019s spokesperson sought to deflect the blow in a lengthy press conference. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government inherited a disastrous situation,\u201d Manuel Adorni told reporters, lambasting the decades of unbridled spending under Milei\u2019s <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-election-peronism-massa-milei-f5db5a92328f4316384ff6e0092c5272\">left-leaning Peronist predecessors<\/a><\/span> that generated chronic inflation. \u201cThey left us on the brink of being a country with essentially all of its inhabitants poor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unlike previous populist governments that kept consumer spending high at the cost of a massive budget deficit, Milei dismantled price controls, cut subsidies on energy <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-buenos-aires-subway-aa1e5b5534f4d26dbd13a4ed55278aa1\">and transport<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-economy-dollar-devaluation-economy-cuts-28089d64ae72bde12d53be59b5bc5a85\">devalued the peso by 54% in December<\/a><\/span> after taking office. <\/p>\n<p>The austerity measures and deregulation have marked a brutal contraction in spending power and dragged the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-inflation-milei-single-digits-3cf0adca2cdf911fb04a06c3e9c6880d\">economy deep into recession<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-edge-to-edge=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-fe0000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-large-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1360\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/7294145\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/7452x4968+0+0\/resize\/1360x907!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F55%2Ff5%2Feb82bd0b019aaf636940e2f6ad21%2F1699c6780db345a0a5c04911a03a30b1 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/5aa8830\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/7452x4968+0+0\/resize\/2720x1814!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F55%2Ff5%2Feb82bd0b019aaf636940e2f6ad21%2F1699c6780db345a0a5c04911a03a30b1 2x\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" width=\"1360\" height=\"907\" 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in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo\/Natacha Pisarenko)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-milei-libertarian-congress-legislative-protest-unions-economy-c50129872e4987b7a1e936ba83f5e7a1\">political outsider<\/a><\/span> who made fighting Argentina\u2019s dizzying inflation his flagship campaign promise, Milei is betting that if his government can keep prices falling, growth will return and fuel a miraculous recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Milei\u2019s austerity measures have helped drive down the yearly inflation rate from a peak of almost 300% in April. His government\u2019s budget proposal expects annual inflation to drop to 122.9% by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>But the months ahead will be tricky, economists say. After its initial decline, monthly inflation has been stuck around 4% since July. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-milei-budget-congress-economy-inflation-c83178217097093d476fab94429768a4\">Milei\u2019s 2025 budget proposal<\/a><\/span> aims for a fiscal surplus of over 1.3% of the country\u2019s annual economic output. That would require further spending cuts as calls to restart frozen public works and <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-milei-finances-austerity-8e1fb74bee3c11848ba4165bd5d97280\">boost pensions<\/a><\/span> and wages grow louder. <\/p>\n<h2>A thinning safety net <\/h2>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-edge-to-edge=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-470000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-large-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1360\" height=\"907\" 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src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/e7c0b39\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8057x5371+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F9f%2F85%2F8a0e0835732a9dba7b260078803e%2F85f2f8c9507040b3940b166d90d14a2e\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div class=\"Figure-content\">\n<div class=\"Figure-content-text\"><bsp-read-more class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\">\n<p>Rocio Costa watches her daughter Francesca try on shoes at a second-hand clothing fair alongside her other children Almendra and Tiziano in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 16, 2024. (AP Photo\/Natacha Pisarenko)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Of the millions who can\u2019t clear Argentina\u2019s official poverty level of about $950 a month in local currency for a family of four, even more have <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/milei-100-days-argentina-poverty-inflation-6011d71963b4203accbfadb4044cd43e\">tumbled into destitution<\/a><\/span>. Thursday\u2019s poverty report showed that Argentina\u2019s extreme poverty rate had shot up to 18.1% during Milei\u2019s first six months as president from 11.9% in the last half of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Among those affected is 32-year-old Roc\u00edo Costa, who said the rapidly rising prices have sapped her family\u2019s meager income of just over $400 a month. Comforts like hair-dye, soft drinks and pizza had long been out of reach, but in July she realized she didn\u2019t have enough money to both buy diapers for her four-month-old and put dinner on the table for her family of five. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere wasn\u2019t even a package of noodles, there was nothing,\u201d Costa said from her home in the capital of Buenos Aires. \u201cThe Milei government is killing me.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Desperate, Costa turned to friends and volunteers and eventually secured diapers at a social assistance center and $1 second-hand sneakers for her daughter at a local parish. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are plugging the holes,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<h2>A jobs crisis <\/h2>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-edge-to-edge=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-d30000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-large-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" 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src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/ac0a850\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/7495x4997+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F4a%2F66%2F8ec99d85c787d14c5ffb54ae3bf2%2F5fce6b51298345a7861af05812d090db\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div class=\"Figure-content\">\n<div class=\"Figure-content-text\"><bsp-read-more class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\">\n<p>Weekend security guard Leonardo Constantino stops to pose for a portrait as he walks home with food for his family that he received from a soup kitchen in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. (AP Photo\/Natacha Pisarenko)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The runaway inflation \u2014 shocking even for Argentines <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-poverty-inflation-massa-milei-d515d077f61147b203149d9e2a6a164c\">who lived through years of annual inflation<\/a><\/span> averaging above 50% \u2014 has forced middle-class Argentines to cut back on spending and drain their savings. <\/p>\n<p>The economy has contracted 3% so far this year. Government surveys reveal that both Argentina\u2019s vast informal jobs market and formal workforce have <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-milei-economy-austerity-government-protest-unions-libertarian-9cd7a38cce50221598c69764fc951b69\">hemorrhaged hundreds of thousands of jobs since Milei took office<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>That has put more of Argentina\u2019s once-robust middle class in danger of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-poverty-levels-uca-study-milei-devaluation-d5cb0a20b1e768efdeafbad5bf05eded\">sliding into poverty<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m part of Argentina\u2019s lost middle class,\u201d said 48-year-old Leonardo Constantino. Before he lost his job six years ago, he had a regular paycheck working in restaurants and played padel, the popular racket sport, with friends whenever he could.<\/p>\n<p>Finding a new job has never been harder. \u201cIt kept getting worse,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Now a weekend bouncer earning just $155 a month, he said he couldn\u2019t afford basic household items without help from the Buenos Aires municipality.<\/p>\n<p>Some months ago, he gave up his favorite hobby. 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line outside a soup kitchen for a free, hot meal, where they walked to from home on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo\/Natacha Pisarenko)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For decades low-paid Argentines have navigated their upside-down economy by padding their meager incomes with government cash transfers and generous subsidies that reduced the cost of utilities, food and transport. <\/p>\n<p>But utilities bills jumped over 200% for many after <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-congress-milei-law-president-economy-8deecd2adcdb82258a242b53d2474480\">Milei scrapped the subsidies<\/a><\/span> to trim the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>For Sofia Gonzalez Figueroa, a 36-year-old single mother who last year paid $10 a month for electricity, the pain of Milei\u2019s austerity was instantaneous. Her utilities bill skyrocketed by 830%. <\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez Figueroa barters clothes for shampoo and other essentials, and uses the government\u2019s family welfare program to buy groceries. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not much, but it helps me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Those who don\u2019t qualify for assistance have <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/argentina-economy-crisis-javier-milei-president-peronist-crisis-8a8ac450fa5f7942f61ab092fdd4ed15\">increasingly turned to side hustles to pay utilities bills<\/a><\/span>. Emilce Correa, who works 42 hours a week as a lab technician at a public hospital, picks up all extra shifts she can at far-flung medical centers. \u201cBy the middle of the month, I already have nothing,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Others have joined the growing legions of workers offering to wash car windows at red lights and mining dumpsters for sustenance.<\/p>\n<h2>Hungry but patient<\/h2>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-edge-to-edge=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-f70000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-large-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"1360\" height=\"907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/e9c4313\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8640x5760+0+0\/resize\/1360x907!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Ff3%2F8f%2F2bbdff991ed7a292e09c37f676f0%2Fc611ef6ee89142749dd9c31dc883b0ee 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class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\">\n<p>Debora Paola Galluccio eats her one meal of the day from a community kitchen next to her partner Marcelo D\u00edaz in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Sept. 9, 2024. (AP Photo\/Natacha Pisarenko)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>D\u00e9bora Galluccio, a 48-year-old legal expert who lost her job in Congress during the previous administration, went from dining in restaurants to soup kitchens in less than a year. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard, but we manage as best we can,\u201d Galluccio said, sipping stew provided by a local nonprofit. She said she feels lucky to live in an apartment that her partner inherited. Milei\u2019s move to relax rent-control regulations has priced most working-class Argentines out of the real estate market.<\/p>\n<p>Despite it all, Galluccio \u2014 like many Argentines \u2014 seems to have accepted that the immediate pain of Milei\u2019s economic reforms is an inevitable step toward prosperity. <\/p>\n<p>Fed up with generations of crises under left-wing populists, Galluccio is giving the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/milei-argentina-chainsaw-fed35a37c6137b951e4adada3d866436\">chainsaw-wielding radical<\/a><\/span> a shot. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn eight months he can\u2019t fix the mess they made in 20 years,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-edge-to-edge=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-110000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture 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