Sheinbaum presents project to reduce poverty and inequality

Tuxpan, Ver. Claudia Sheinbaum, presidential candidate of the Let’s keep making history coalition, presented her project for the reduction of poverty and inequality, which proposes that 7.5 million people escape extreme poverty in the country.

The proposal is that by 2030, multidimensional extreme poverty will remain below two percent, with the combined effect of welfare programs, a prospective GDP growth of at least 3 percent annually and the new support program for women from 60 to 64 years old proposed by the presidential candidate.

Sheinbaum said that it is a “completely different perspective from the neoliberal model,” which seeks “the reduction of poverty, distributing wealth and our objective is that there are no extreme poor people in our country. And if not, reduce extreme poverty in a substantive way”, which includes the countryside.

He stated that he seeks to strengthen the welfare state, so that social programs become rights, coupled with the country’s own economic development.

The former head of Government of Mexico City considered it appropriate to announce this proposal a few days before the second debate, because, she highlighted, one of the big issues will be reducing poverty and inequality.

He stated that his objective is “to continue building social rights and the protection of human rights. To this end, we are going to maintain all the social rights incorporated by the president and we are also going to the second floor of the fourth transformation.”

We are proposing, he said, “the reduction of poverty and inequalities, that there are no extreme poor, men and women, boys and girls (in that condition) in our country, through continuing to expand social rights in this construction of the State. of well-being in our country.

This translates, he added, into the different proposals that we have developed: “continue to advance women’s rights, with universal support for those aged 60 to 64; Likewise, monthly support for boys and girls who go to public schools, to strengthen public education and address poverty among boys and girls.”

He also mentioned granting greater social rights to agricultural and fishing laborers, so that they have access to Social Security, as well as to food and product delivery people who “unfortunately the large transnational companies do not hire them, but rather make them partners and then they are It provides support that is not even associated with the minimum wage,” so their income is basically tips.

He indicated that this job insecurity “that has developed in different sectors, we need to incorporate it into formalization.”

She also mentioned supporting women through public care or initial education centers. “They are not children’s stays that were allowed with (Felipe) Calderón due to corruption; They are not daycares because they are not about caring for boys and girls, but really about early childhood care. We have to go gradually for the resources that this implies, and we will first serve those who need it most, who are day laborers and women in the maquila.”

He also mentioned that it will strengthen the right to education from initial to postgraduate education, particularly by expanding enrollment and scholarships in high school and higher education, as well as access to health, through strengthening the IMSS of the ISSSTE and the new system IMSS well-being, which “we will have to consolidate it.”

When detailing the project, Violeta Rojas, coordinator of the well-being and inequality reduction axis, mentioned that with the fourth transformation, social policy is understood as “an ecosystem of strategies for national well-being. We have at least the largest social policy in history, stability of economic growth, strategic and regional development projects, in addition to increases in the minimum wage and new labor rights.”

He recalled that social programs became universal, direct and are constitutional rights, in addition to being protected against electoral use and stigmatization.

He explained that with the current social policy, poverty was reduced, going from 49.1 of the population in that condition in 2018, and now it is 36.3. “5.1 million people escaped poverty, which is more or less the equivalent of the total population of Chiapas to give you an idea of ​​how many people were finally able to live with dignity.”

He indicated that inequality was also consistently reduced during the fourth transformation. “We have gone from 2018 to 2022 from 0.46 to 0.43 on the GINI coefficient scale, which puts us in the international average close to the coefficient that countries like Uruguay or Chile have.”

He mentioned that only of the seven programs where beneficiaries receive transfers of resources – pension for older adults, for people with disabilities, scholarships for Benito Juárez Welfare, the support program for the well-being of sons and daughters of working mothers, Jóvenes Construyendo the Future, Sowing Life and Production for Wellbeing -, almost eight out of every ten households in Mexico receive at least one of these schemes, in which 2.7 billion pesos have been invested.

On the second floor of the transformation, the proposal is to also have new programs. The pension for women aged 60 to 64, consisting of bimonthly support equivalent to half of the pension for those aged 65 and over. The goal is to reach one million women in 2025 and gradually increase until it becomes universal.
The next priority program will be scholarships for well-being in basic education, the objective is to reach 24 million students at that level.

He also mentioned strengthening the program for sons and daughters of working mothers; a program for day laborers in agriculture and fishing, in order to guarantee them access to health and education; a national system of care.

“The rest of the programs will be maintained and annual increases above inflation will be guaranteed so that they do not lose their purchasing power.” He stressed increasing the minimum wage until it reaches 2.5 basic baskets and there will be fair salaries for strategic professions, especially those in the education, security and health sectors.

He highlighted that with the welfare policy, extreme poverty was reduced from 2020 to 2022, going from 10.8 million people to 9.1 million.

And now the proposal, he added, is that there be a coordination of mechanisms between authorities and different levels of government, and that the specific population that is in extreme poverty be monitored, in addition to the combined effects of social programs, the growth prospect of GDP, of at least 3 percent annually and the new support program for women aged 60 to 64.