Milei's Lie on the Data of Poverty Opinion The Voice of the Interior

The Indec has just published its report of poverty and indigence for the second half of 2024. Why does no one believe in the supposed decrease in poverty reported there?The Indec (National Institute of Statistics and Censuses) suggests that, in December 2024, a person with income of $331,600 was not poor.Is it credible?Of course not.But this is what the agency says.How does the Indec measure poverty?Indec MethodologyThe Indec draws two monetary …

The director of the Instituto de Investigación Social, Económica y Política Ciudadana (ISEPCI) in Santa Fe, Sofia Botto, stated that “the data on a supposed drop in poverty in the Gran Rosario that INDEC released do not reflect the reality of families and that generates erroneous or very limited public policies [...]