• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    More than half of Argentina’s 46 million people are now living in poverty, new figures indicate, in a blow to right-wing President Javier Milei’s efforts to turn around the country’s beleaguered economy.

    The poverty figure for the first six months of this year was 52.9%, up from 41.7% in the second half of 2023, said the country’s Indec statistics agency.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqn751x19no

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      And poverty in Argentina is something like $2.55US a day.