Lift 7.5 million out of extreme poverty in 6 years, Sheinbaum’s goal

Tuxpan, Ver. Claudia Sheinbaum, presidential candidate for Morena, PT and PVEM, stated that her goal for 2030 is to lift 7.5 million people out of extreme poverty. When presenting the thematic axis of social rights, well-being and reduction of inequality, she stated that the idea is that there be no extreme poverty in the country or to reduce it substantively.

His objective, he said, is that in six years extreme multidimensional poverty will be below 2 percent, with the combined effect of Welfare programs, a prospective GDP growth of at least 3 percent annually and the new support program. to women between 60 and 64 years old, which she has been raising in her campaign.

He explained that it is a completely different perspective on the neoliberal modelbecause you are looking reduce poverty by distributing wealth, and our objective is that there are no extreme poor people in the country.

Two days before the second debate between presidential candidates, where one of the big issues is the reduction of poverty and inequality, he affirmed that they will continue building social rights and fundamental guarantees will be protectedand we will maintain, he stressed, all the social rights incorporated by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador. And we must go, he added, gradually due to the resources that this impliesBut let’s go to Serve first the people who need it most.

Violeta Vázquez-Rojas, coordinator of the axis, recalled that with the welfare policy 5.1 million people escaped poverty, roughly equivalent to the population of Chiapas. And regarding extreme poverty, he said that from 2020 to 2022 it fell from 10.8 to 9.1 million people.

He indicated that inequality was also consistently reduced. From 2018 to 2022 we went from 0.46 to 0.43 on the Gini coefficient scale, which puts us at the international average, close to countries like Uruguay or Chile.

In addition, he mentioned that only in the seven programs where beneficiaries receive resource transfers, such as pensions for older adults, Youth Building the Future, Sowing Life and Production for Wellbeing, 2.7 billion pesos have been invested, and almost eight out of every 10 households receive at least one of these supports.

Among the 12 strategies of the project proposed by Sheinbaum is to create a pension for women aged 60 to 64, provide a scholarship for well-being in basic education, strengthen the program for the well-being of children of workers, establish a special one for social security and labor conditions of day laborers in agriculture and fishing, and create the national care system, with emphasis on supporting women farmers and in the maquila.

In addition, provide social security to employees of digital platforms, which would allow almost half a million drivers and delivery people to be given all labor rights. The morenista reproached that, Unfortunately, large transnational companies do not hire them, but rather make them partners and give them support that is not even associated with the minimum wage.so their income is basically tips.

The strategy includes maintaining and strengthening welfare programs, ensuring that their annual increase is higher than inflation, as well as increases each year to the minimum wage. Also, guarantee fair salaries for strategic professions, such as basic level teachers, police, national guards, members of the armed forces, doctors and nurses.

Sheinbaum was in Álamo Temapache and Papantla, Veracruz, and at night, in Huauchinango, Puebla, at whose rally there were some boos for Ignacio Mier, candidate for the Senate. The presidential standard bearer returned to Mexico City after midnight. This Friday and Saturday she will not have public activities to prepare for her participation in the debate.