Social Deprivations Rise, Poverty Falls in Mexico

National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy’s 2022 Poverty Measurement Estimates revealed key issues affecting Mexico’s low income communities
Read moreNational Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy’s 2022 Poverty Measurement Estimates revealed key issues affecting Mexico’s low income communities
Read moreXINHUA Children living in impoverished areas are the most vulnerable group in Mexico due to a lack of adequate education services during the covid-19 pandemic, according to Maria Teresa Reyes Ruiz, a social sciences researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Most households suffered a drop in income or unemployment of at least one family member, impacting the
Read moreBy THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF With 140 campuses nationwide, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) highly touted Benito Juárez García Bienestar Universities (UBBJ) have not had the public response that the president would have liked. In fact, enrollment is so low that some of the Bienestar universities barely have anyone registered for classes, such as the one in Yahualica,
Read moreBy THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF In the nearly three years that leftist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been in power, an additional 3.8 million Mexicans have fallen into poverty, and of those, 55 percent have dropped below the extreme poverty line, according to a report issued Thursday, Aug. 5, by the National Council for the Evaluation of
Read moreBy KELIN DILLON In the two years of the current presidential administration, Mexico’s government only gave out scholarships to 10 percent of its disabled population, while cutting millions of pesos in funding from the organization that defends their human rights, leaving the country’s disabled community hung out to dry amid the devastating covid-19 pandemic. According to the National Institute of
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