[ad_1]
The message to end poverty was sent by the Hellenic Network for Combating Poverty on the occasion of the World Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17.
According to an online press conference, the speakers spoke, according to the Authors’ Journal, about the initiatives and policies at national and European level adopted in the fight against poverty.
Both during the Memorandum period and now during the pandemic, unemployment rates are steadily increasing.
Of the two million poor people, 19% of the population in the 1990s, we reached 36% during the period of the memoranda in the middle of the last decade and the society of 1/3 that today lives in poverty.
1 million people live off food
More specifically, the percentages of children living below the poverty line are worrying, while according to the data cited during the press conference, 600,000 more people joined the unemployed. In addition, more than a million people guarantee their nutrition through meals.
Professor Maria Karamesini also spoke during the discussion, referring to the previous government’s efforts to reduce extreme poverty (food card, school meals, pilot social solidarity allowance) and to ensure health for everyone, even those without insurance. .
Greek Initiative for Basic Income
Also announced was the Greek Basic Income Initiative, which participates in the European Citizens’ Initiative for Unconditional Basic Income in the European Union, which will ensure material survival and the ability of each individual to participate in society as part of the economy. policy, a request for which the goal is to collect 1,000,000 signatures.
In this way, the objective of the joint declaration of the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission in 2017, according to which “the EU and its Member States will also support the establishment of efficient, sustainable and equitable with the aim of guaranteeing a basic income “to combat inequality.
Ominous predictions
The World Bank report’s predictions are a nightmare, where it is estimated that: the coronavirus pandemic can lead to extreme poverty, that is, living on less than $ 1.90 a day, up to 150 million people by the end of 2021 , eliminating three years of progress in efforts to reduce world poverty.
According to the organization, 9.1% -9.4% of the world’s population could be living in extreme poverty this year, marking the first increase in the extreme poverty rate in about 20 years.
[ad_2]
