June 12
07:49
2024
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This is stated in the survey of more than a hundred businesses and 57 products by the Institute for Social, Economic and Citizen Policy Research regarding the basic basket. Furthermore, to not be homeless, $363,000 is required. Does NOT include rent.
Lucas De La Fuente, president of Libres del Sur, an organization that surveyed the value of the basic basket in May in La Rioja, spoke with Riojavirtual about it.
«There was an increase in the amount, prices continue to increase and people can’t afford it. To avoid falling below the poverty line, 363,000 pesos were needed and 807,000 pesos were needed to avoid falling below the poverty line. It does not include rent, if we are not reaching a million pesos so as not to be poor. This is for a typical family,” said de la Fuente.
Along these lines, he highlighted that “people cannot indulge themselves, instead of buying top brand meat or noodles, they are buying everything with flour in the neighborhoods according to sales rates.”
Then, he highlighted that in Libres del Sur “we had approximately 20 soup kitchens, today we have four working because the neighbors help us, since November of last year no food has arrived. The merchants who previously collaborated, now cannot, “he laments.
Finally, he indicated that the cut in the shipment of merchandise is the responsibility of both the provincial and national governments regarding his organization.
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