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Adoración Peñas, a councilor of United Green Left in the city of Lorca, announced this morning that he will present a motion in the ordinary plenary of October to urge the regional government to draw up a Regional Strategic Plan to Combat Poverty and the Social Exclusion that gives solution to the situation of hardship and misery suffered by thousands of Murcia.
The extreme poverty rate in our Region is 8.1% of the population, which means that these people must survive on less than 342 euros per month.
This is a figure that, in addition to being high, is 1.7 percentage points higher than the national average and the third highest in all the autonomous communities, according to data from the EAPN-RM (Network to Combat Poverty and Exclusion Social of the Region of Murcia).
This report states that 34.8% (one in three) of the population residing in the Region were at risk of poverty and / or social exclusion in the year 2016. These and similar data provided by other organizations have led to declaring to the President of Caritas Interparroquial de Lorca that "poverty now has the face of our neighbor ladder."
Peñas has criticized the inaction of the Popular Party despite the alarming data provided by these studies, whose response has been to criticize the methodology of these reports, as recently done by the Councilor for Family and Equality of the Region, Violante Tomás, instead of increasing the amount to meet the needs of the most disadvantaged and punished by the economic crisis that we still suffer.
Therefore, in the motion to be defended next Monday, Peñas will urge CARM to draw up a Regional Strategic Plan to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion, based on compliance with the agreements contained in the Regional Covenant of Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion signed in 2015 in the Regional Assembly, which will include medium- and long-term measures to combat poverty and exclusion, with a view to achieving a more just and equitable social model and reducing the consequences of social inequalities in the Region.
The Strategic Plan will include the following measures:
Elaboration of a Law of insertion companies that serve as a first step to people at risk of exclusion to access a job with a decent remuneration.
Elaboration of a new law of guarantee of income for the Basic Income, guaranteeing the financing to the beneficiaries.
Commit at least 5% of the regional budget to the fight against poverty and social exclusion and measures to combat child poverty, such as in the case of scholarship grants, or for books and school supplies, or in the availability of public places from 0 to 3 years free for families in situation of poverty.
Establish the implementation of Guaranteed Work plans linked to the public sector, as an effective way to combat situations of poverty and social exclusion and to improve the labor conditions of the labor market in general.
Ensure compliance with the housing law of the Region of Murcia, access to it and concrete legal actions against energy poverty.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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