Infodata
Households with very low work intensity and dependent children, greater risk of poverty and social exclusion
February 2020
Some 79.3% of households with children and with very low work intensity were at risk of poverty in 2017. Does this figure exceed the European average?
Dossier
Tackling child poverty
February 2020
To what point do poverty and material deprivation affect the households in which children live? The eighth Dossier from the Social Observatory of ”la Caixa” analyses the relationship between child poverty and its consequences, such as health problems, academic failure and social mobility difficulties.
Article
Social transfers targeting children: the best way to fight child poverty?
February 2020
In Spain barely 3.3% of the total of social transfers in the year 2016 targeted children, against the European average of 9%. However, this study shows that it is the most effective way of eradicating poverty.
Best practices
CaixaProinfancia Programme
February 2020
The CaixaProinfancia programme supports families in a situation of poverty with academic reinforcement, grants for food and hygiene, leisure, psychotherapeutic care and family educational support.
Review
The high price of inequality: lessons on the costs and consequences of child poverty in advanced societies
February 2020
The books reviewed here consider why it is important for everyone, and not just for the most vulnerable, to achieve more egalitarian societies.
Article
The enduring impact of the economic crisis on child poverty
February 2020
Despite the economic recovery, in 2018 three out of every ten children were living in a situation of anchored poverty. Poverty during childhood has consequences throughout life. We analyse its impact.