Poverty: 17% of homes with employment and children live in a situation of labor poverty: “Work is not enough” | Society
Meeling (36 years), Maringels (34 years) and Esther (42 years) are in common: effort to work and move their children forward. However, they are adapted to another: despite the monthly salary and effort, they will not reach the end of this month. “I’m not coming. I don’t know how to do it, but … a little while, a little,” Said Maringles. They are not the only one. According to the latest report of Protect childrenWere, and,, and,, and,, and,.. Accounts that do not come out. Radiography of labor poverty in Spain houses. That is, they fail to earn an adequate income to overcome the poverty limit.
Maringles and Esther have single mothers and one and three children respectively. Meeling lives with her husband and offspring. The labor poverty varies depending on the type of home, and everything faces a different problem. In single -parent families, this number increases to 32% and up to 35.5%. The national average for the total population is 11.7%.
The report argues that getting a job in Spain does not guarantee the basic life. Save the Children’s Social and Political Events Director Catalina Perazo explained: “We will see The condition of families with children Worsens. We will see everyday that is not enough. ”
To prepare the report – the first time labor poverty – the National Statistics Institute organized by the Living Conditions Survey (ECV) and the continuous model of social security (MCVL), with the aim of crossing the data on poverty and employment. In addition, they interviewed eight families to learn about their cases.
Meeling Janelis Cruz came to Spain with her 11 -year -old son, migrating a year ago from Nicaragua a year ago. It is almost impossible to manage a three family with a minimum interprofessional salary (SMI), the woman tells El Pace. “We can’t buy the clothes or footwear we need, for food we have bought less and basics” he said. Then, she got a job of hours, with which she added 160 euros per month: “It is not too much, but it is something to eat,” he recalled.
In households with two adults, only one work, Poverty rate increases to 33% when a child And at 38% when two. For two months, both of them had a fixed job in Billbao, who came in the bakery after a lot of effort and full availability. He is lucky to have a work flexibility to take care of his son for taking care of his son, otherwise he does not have a job because there is no reconciliation. Maybe I will be unemployed. ”
If two parents in a family of Perazo receive SMI, the situation is “very covered with a There is less likely to be in poverty on full day“Highlights. According to the report, the monthly poverty limit in 2023 for two adults and two minors is 2,027 euros and 965 for the same -parent families. SMI is currently in 1,184 euros.
The main reason for this context, the NGO said that it is impossible to work all the time due to partial days or stopping. Short -term jobs and even lower wages per hour. In addition, parents have income, lack of specific procedures and lack of benefits to families and parenting.
The Spanish, who lives in Andalusia, works 25 hours a week and earns a net of 650 euros, and minimum crucial income help. It tells the children to protect his condition: “I hope to be a full day, because I won, every time they need me, I am on the foot of the cannon.”
Single women and immigrants, families that cause more harm
For Perazo, if all the vulnerability comes together in a profile, it becomes a single and foreign extra -community mother. The report highlights the report that poverty is not separated from the femininity of poverty: “They should look for a way to meet reconciliation needs, a more effort to be single,” the specialist said. And he adds: “It is associated with the structural inequalities of the gender: access to employment, salary gap, greater economic vulnerability.”
In Spain, there are 806,400 men who work in part -time and this number is more than 2,250,000. Of these, about 400,000 women are suggesting that care of this type of work is a cause, compared to 30,000 men in the same situation.
The same happened in the case of Esther, who belongs to Equatorial Guinea and living in Madrid with his three children 18, 16 and 6 years. “It’s hard to be a single mother. I have trouble with work hours and need to run for a child, ”he said.
For autonomy, the highest labor is found in Poverty Andalusia (24.6%), Castilla-La Mancha (24.2%) and Mursia (22.4%). In contrast, the low -rates associations are Galicia (8.2%) and the bask country (9.3%).
When it comes to the characteristics of the work, the self -sector is associated with a greater likelihood to be in poverty. However, this is one of the options that families prefer, especially for flexibility reasons. The operational sector also affects poverty, agriculture, cattle, forest and fishing rate, but at least financial and insurance operations.
