スペインでは、不況による失業の増大と、財政削減政策による社会福祉の削減のせいで、社会的不平等の貧富の差が拡大
EDITORIAL
Desigualdad creciente
La crisis y las políticas de austeridad castigan en España más a los que menos tienen
El País 15 OCT 2012 - 00:00 CET
EDITORIAL
growing inequality
The crisis and the austerity policies in Spain more to punish those who have less
The Country 15 OCT 2012 - 00:00 CET
Spain has become the eurozone country with the highest level of social inequality. After several decades of improvement thanks largely to an active social policy and the extension of free and universal public services, the gap between incoming households most and least to grow for five years, while increasing poverty . The crisis is seriously affecting social cohesion.
Eurostat's latest report confirms that social differences increase severely. The gap between the most and least entrants has grown to the point of placing Spain in the first place among the 27 EU member countries with greater social inequality. This has been helped runaway unemployment, but also cuts in social services universal and increased indirect taxation that penalizes more to the less fortunate. One indicator of inequality is the relationship between the 20% of the population that enters and 20% entering less. Before the crisis, the richest in Spain admitted 5.3 times more than the poorest. In 2011 this proportion had grown to 7.5, when the European Union average is 5.7. We are far and in Germany, where the ratio is 4.6.
Statistics confirm something perceived daily and endure the consequences: a significant part of the population that fewer young people entering are not allowed in the labor market and will suffer the burden of the crisis for a long time in the form of lower levy Social Security, loss of professional opportunities and difficulties in forming a heritage.
In a year has risen two points the percentage of households living below the poverty line. Now, 22% of the population is in this situation, with all kinds of consequences, including health. Life expectancy in the district of Barcelona with higher incomes, Sant Gervasi, is 81 years, while that of the poorest, El Raval, is 73, according to Sophie project, an EU program to measure these differences.
If these situations compensate powerful social policy, would be less tragic. But the opposite is true. In 2010, social services served more than eight million people, almost 20% more than the previous year. The figure must have grown greatly in 2011 and so far in 2012. But when most needed, the government has cut more funds intended for these purposes: 40% by 2013 in basic social services, those for municipalities to, among others, emergency aid. And social workers keep their jobs when they are overwhelmed. Even amid the worst crisis imaginable can ask for some reflection. Increase social cohesion takes time and effort. Destroy it, very little.
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