Spanish children now at greater risk of poverty than seniors
Twenty-six percent of minors live in homes that fall below the
2010 poverty threshold Only Bulgaria and Romania exceed these
figures within the European Union "Poverty has the face of a
child," said the director of Unicef Spain, Paloma Escudero, at
the presentation on Monday of a report entitled The impact of
the crisis on children. Some 26 percent of Spaniards under the
age of 18 - 2.2 million children - live in homes that fall below
the 2010 poverty threshold, according to National Statistics
Institute figures compiled for the report. For the first time,
children living in situations of deprivation in Spain outnumber
the over-65s, which was the worst-affected demographic until
this year at 21.7 percent. Furthermore, the number of children
on the poverty line has risen by 10 percent with respect to
2008, which represents families of two adults and two children
with income of less than 16,400 euros. Of the 205,000 children
in this bracket, 13.7 perc