The Catholic Church warned that 10 percent of homes of the Metropolitan area are located in shanty towns and that 24 percent of their inhabitants are thus requested that “ the overcoming of poverty, equal opportunities for all and social integration as considered as top priorities in State policies.»
Within this framework, per the conclusions of a report presented today through Cáritas of City and of the metropolitan area, the Church said that the «main obstacle to overcome the inequal social scenario is the lack of union of political, economic, social and cultural wills to back a strategic development horizon.”
The data was presented weeks after the October presidential elections «as a way to contribute to the elected authorities.»
A report of the UCA Argentine Catholic University’s Social Debt Observatory assured that half of people over 18 years old haven’t completed at least a secondary level of education.
“Almost 10 percent of homes of the Metropolitan area are located in shantytowns. This trend is stronger in the Greater Buenos Aires (10 percent) than in in the City (8 percent). This difference is even stronger, obviously, if the total amount of population is taken into account,” the report, part of a book called Social Doubts of the Bicentenary. A stage of hope and opportunities to overcome poverty,” assured.
Agustín Savia, chief investigator of the Social Debt Observatory explained that according to the alternative basic food basket that they took into account to make the report (which costs 2153 pesos, against the 1372 pesos basket Indec uses) real poverty stands around 24 percent.
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