Brazil has 32 mi kids in poverty, Unicef survey says
At least 32 million Brazilian boys and girls live in poverty. The number represents 63 percent of all children and adolescents in the country and covers several dimensions of the problem. In addition to income, drivers such as food, education, child labor, housing, water, sanitation, and access to information were considered as major indicators in the research.The data can be found in a study entitled As Múltiplas Dimensões da Pobreza na Infância e na Adolescência no Brasil (“The Multiple Dimensions of Poverty in Childhood and Adolescence in Brazil”), released this week by the United Nations Children’s Fund, or Unicef.The survey presents data up to 2019 on child labor, housing, water, sanitation, and information; up to 2021 on income and food; and up to 2022 on education. “At a time wh...