text: The present administration has made a point of campaigning against poverty. President Lula has recieved international applause for his 'Fome Zero' ('Zero Hunger') program.\n\nResearch shows that poverty has decreased 8%, but Brazil still is one of the leaders in the social disparity ranking. We have some of the richest people in the world and quite a lot of the poorest (25,08% of the population lives under the poverty line, which means that their families make under 60 dollars a month).\n\nThe current administration spent over US$13.5 billion in the Fome Zero program this year alone, and that number is growing. There's also Bolsa Familia - a program directed at people whose families make under US$50 a month -, which was classified by The Economist as the largest income transfer program in Latin America, with investments that total over US$3 billion. \n\nAs far as children go, specifically, there's not a lot being done. Our social services have taken care of 1.69 million children, but they only cover about 80% of all counties. \n\nThe problem in the big cities is that most of the poor children that circulate on the streets are not actually homeless. Most of them are sent to beg by their own parents, and some are blatantly used by them to attract sympathy. The mayor of Rio de Janeiro has made attempts at gathering 'homeless' kids in special shelters, but they either escape or their parents take them out and let them go to the streets again.\n\nStreet kids are victim of a number of social problems. It is impossible to solve the situation with one specific government program. \n\nPS: to the answer before mine: dude, when you say it's a corrupt society, it sounds like everyone is corrupt. That's not a nice thing to say now, is it?