Poverty rises to 55% of the population, according to a UCA study, but President Javier Milei denied that families cannot make ends meet. Now, too, he began to falsely repeat that salaries are outpacing inflation, when it is the opposite: a brutal loss of purchasing power due to his salary “blender” policy.
More reports and empirical evidence show what is seen on the street. In May, a family needed a budget of $1,249,313.29 to cover all your expenses, according to a report from the Consumer Education, Services and Advice Center (CESyAC). Of this total, $803,990.28 (66%) went to basic home serviceswhile $445,323.01 (34%) were used for mass consumption products.
Likewise, the report indicates that in May the largest price increases among mass consumption products were observed in fruits and vegetables (15.25%) and meats (6.10%). Regarding basic services, the most notable increases were in the subway (359.20%)ABL (21.10%), mobile telephony (10%), cable TV and Internet (10%) and prepaid medicine (17.3%).
Precisely, in the case of underground that are under the concession of the company EMOVAthe Buenos Aires government of Jorge Macri It seeks the rate to continue increasing and reach $757 in July to guarantee its profits. It means a increase of more than 1000% in one year. While the subway workers who question the high rates, disinvestment and denounce asbestos contamination are persecuted for fighting, such as the persecutory sanction against delegate Claudio Dellecarbonara.
For its part, in recent days the Statistics report of the City of Buenos Aires was released in which they estimate that in May one family needed at least $1,339,751.45 to be considered “middle class” and $860,100 to be above the poverty line. Likewise, the Food Basket which measures the threshold of indigence was located in $486,068.
In the national measurementone family needed more than $850,000 in May so as not to be poor, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (Indec). This level does not take into account important expenses such as housing or rent.
It should be added that the last measurement of the minimum consumption basket carried out by the workers of the ATE-Indec Internal Boardthrew for April an amount of $1,253,953. so that a family can cover all their needs, that is, for a household made up of a 35-year-old couple with two school-age children. This value is made up of $447,339 necessary to acquire a Minimum Food Basket and $806,614 to access other basic goods and services.
Among the main items that have increased the most in recent times are the rates of public services such as gas and electricity, in addition to transportation. So far this yearin the AMBA the increase in “Electricity, gas and other fuels” meant 261.6%. In relation to April of last year, inflation in this sector was 475.8%. That is why it is estimated that The weight of the electricity rate in the salary is the highest in the last 30 years.
What is notable is that Milei’s government began to postpone some of the scheduled increases due to the growing unrest that is hitting millions of working families and the impossibility of continuing to absorb the crisis, and thus also achieve a figure of “deceleration” of inflation. However, the route is to continue as soon as possible with the elimination of subsidies and tariffs, as required by the IMF.
In recent months, the deterioration in salaries, popular incomes and pensions that had already been unleashed previously has accelerated, severely impacting the living and working conditions of millions of working families. The unsustainable situation urgently requires an emergency increase in salaries for formal, informal, unemployed and retirement workers, along with an automatic update to protect against inflation.
The CGT and the CTA must break the complicit truce with the government and put himself at the head of a fighting plan to confront the adjustment of Milei and the IMF.
