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Change Murcia will take to plenary next Thursday a proposal for the City Council to urge the Autonomous Community to draw up a Regional Strategic Plan to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion which includes, among other measures, the drafting of a law of guarantees of income for the development of basic income.
Councilor Margarita Guerrero explained that this proposal is based on compliance with the agreements set out in the Regional Pact to Fight Poverty and Social Exclusion signed in 2015 in the regional parliament, which sought medium- and long-term actions to achieve " a more just and equitable social model, "as well as reducing inequality.
The initiative of Cambiemos Murcia raises the need for, within the framework of the aforementioned Plan, a law on insertion companies should be drawn up to serve as a first step for access to the labor market for people at risk of exclusion and at least the 5% of the regional budget goes to the fight against poverty, in adults as well as in boys and girls.
On this point, Guerrero has placed special emphasis on scholarships for the dining room and the purchase of school supplies, as well as on the need for sufficient public places in children's schools from 0 to 3 years for families in poverty.
It also proposes the implementation of guaranteed work plans linked to the public sector as a way of combating situations of poverty and social exclusion;
improve the conditions of employability of the labor market in general and ensure compliance with the housing law of the Region of Murcia and real actions against energy poverty.
The Region, among the autonomous communities with the highest poverty rate
The mayor recalled that, according to the VII report "The State of poverty, monitoring the poverty indicator and social exclusion in Spain 2008-2016" of the Network to Combat Poverty, the extreme poverty rate - people living with less than 342 euros a month - in the Region of Murcia stands at 8.1 percent, the third highest figure in the country.
The report also shows that 34.8 per cent of the population living in the Region was at risk of poverty and social exclusion last year, 6.9 per cent above the national average and the fourth highest of all the autonomous communities.
In addition, Guerrero has drawn attention to non-compliance with the Regional Pact agreements to Fight Poverty and Social Exclusion by the Autonomous Government.
"Its implementation remains a pending issue, especially in view of the increase in poverty in this Autonomous Community," said the councilor.
Source: Cambiemos Murcia
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