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“It is possible to try to act horizontally, through all poverty groups, but it is still possible to act through those groups where the poverty rate is relatively much worse than the general one. These groups are well known: they are single pensioners , single parents with children, usually mothers, disabled. If you concentrate your efforts across the spectrum, then it is quite difficult to achieve a more meaningful result, but if you concentrate your efforts where the indicators are the worst, then the overall result also improves faster ”I. Šimonytė told reporters on Tuesday.
According to her, to reduce poverty, employment benefits and measures for the disabled can be used.
“The first measures are simpler: bonuses for single people, (…) measures for the employment of people with disabilities, which we discussed last quarter, but they may be more apt to suggest measures that allow more people with disabilities to work and win, “he said.
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