Inflation: January assert that poverty fell more than half a million Argentines

The figure comes from a report by the Social Observatory CGT Hugo Moyano. The total number of poor in the country and reaches 12.5 million Argentines.

The report measures the observatory CGT opposition clarifies that comprises the number of poor people-and their families-who have a monetary income, employment, retirement, or other government programs, but can not afford to buy the goods and essential and basic services.

In that sense, they estimated that in January as "prices will hit a jump," especially in foods and harder to transport groups in the metropolitan region, such variation had a direct impact on the cost of the basket of poverty, which rose to 6396.73 dollars in the first month of 2014. Meanwhile, incomes were unchanged.

For this gap between prices and wages or pensions, total poor who calculated the labor union of Moyano rose to 12,459,000, against 11,950,000 that was the end of last year. This represents an increase of 509,000 people in just one month, and now the poverty rate reaches 30.9% of the population, according to the survey published by the newspaper Clarin.

In his previous measurement, the CGT had reported that between October and December (3 months) 550,000 Argentines had sunk into poverty. Now, about the same increase in poor reached in just 30 days by the strong devaluation and its correlation with inflation.

Anyway, from the CGT warn that lack plant still compute the impact of the rise of the dollar to $ 8, driven by the government in mid-January on the price index and the value of the basket of poverty, which is They feel especially in February. (Today)