40% of Children Suffer Poverty, Barcelona Plan to Reduce Poverty

Reforme.net

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The Alert collective wrote to the Prime Minister. In his letter, he explained that the outline of the presentation of the draft budget seems difficult to reconcile with the poverty reduction objectives and the informal commitments reaffirmed at our meeting on 3 July.

El Plural

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This morning, the "Barcelona Strategy to Combat Child Poverty 2025-2030" was presented in the Saló de Cent of Barcelona City Council, with the presence of all the stakeholders involved in developing this roadmap. The strategy is funded with €607 million and places this fight as an absolute priority for the city, because investing in structural policies aimed at children has a high social return.

La Vanguardia

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The city of Barcelona faces alarming figures of child poverty, which reaches 40.6% of those under 17 years of age, according to the Arope rate data for the period 2022-23, eight points more than in 2021-22 and also 8% more than in Catalonia as a whole. To try to reduce these figures, the Barcelona City Council presented this morning at the Saló de Cent its strategy until 2030, a battery of actions budgeted at 607 million euros aimed at promoting…

El Periódico

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Four out of ten children live at risk of poverty or social exclusion in Barcelona, an alarming figure against which the Barcelona City Council has deployed a strategy of 607 million euros to fight child poverty until 2030. It is an ambitious and cross-cutting plan, developed in collaboration with other administrations, that seeks to break the cycle of poverty that affects thousands of children and build a fairer city since childhood.Continue rea…