Greengrocery in the city of Buenos Aires.
In the first 4 months of this year, the prices of staple foods -like bread, usually minced meat, noodles, dairy and vegetables- up 30.1% and the main basket family of poverty, no rent, in April he climbed $ 95,268.
The measurement is from the Department of Statistics and Censuses of the City of Buenos Aires, which reported that a family of four (a married couple and 2 children) needed in April more than $ 52,169 for not being indigent when it was $ 40,101 in December 2021. And in April 2021, a year ago, it was $ 32,798, an increase of 59%.
The main increases last month for staple foods were Meat and derivatives (7.4%), Bread and cereals (8.6%), Milk, dairy products and eggs (7.3%) and fish and shellfish (10, 3 %).
Meanwhile, in order not to be poor, an average family (couple and 2 minor children) needs to have an income of more than $ 95,268, against the $ 76,177 they needed in December last year, which represents an increase in 25.1%. Just 4 months.
The total basic or “poverty” basket of Buenos Aires, in addition to food, includes other items, but not the rent of the house.
Thus, Buenos Aires’s basic basket for a family renting a modest home would exceed $ 130,000, an amount that a good portion of workers cannot afford, even with Social Security contributions.
Thus, due to its magnitude and scope, rising prices of food, other products and services it hits the homeless and the poor the poorest.
In order not to be poor but considered a poor family, the income must be between $ 95,268 and 117,708 and be a medium sector between that amount and 147,135, without calculating the final rent.
The Buenos Aires Department reported that in April inflation was 5.3%. However, tomorrow INDEC will provide data for the whole country, which is estimated at close to 6%.
Source: Clarin
