translated from Spanish: The President admitted that poverty increased and announced an increase in the UAC

the President Mauricio Macri acknowledged that poverty “returned to levels” of 2015 and announced an increase of 46% in the amounts of the UAC, speaking to the Assembly legislates TIVA.” “” From the first moment I told them that my goal was to reduce poverty and asked that my mandate is evaluated according to how we move forward in the fulfilment of this objective “, started the head of State.” We had a poverty of 32% but that figure reflected a reality that had been made up, manipulated, with inflation, which had been contained with traps and prohibitions”.
“Zero poverty is a horizon, is what guides us, the course to where we are going and the first thing we did was to put the truth on the table. Poverty does not disappear because you leave measure”, stressed the President.

“From the moment that we begin to measure poverty we began to see a downward trend during two years in a row, in which almost two million Argentines were able to overcome it. But unfortunately, poverty has returned to the levels of before.” He then mentioned that “children are the hardest hit by poverty and in response to this, using a clause in the agreement with the International Monetary Fund that allows us to reinforce the support of the State when it is necessary we have decided to increase from this month a 46 % Universal child allowance”. 

Current amounts of the UAC | Source: Anses “today are solving problems that are not cyclical, structural”, said the head of State to introduce the chapter on social policy. He spoke of a gradual way “which was successful for two years and a half” and example listed “grew the economy, lowered inflation, increased investment, exports, fell poverty and create 700,000 jobs”.
“There is a team of Government assuming the problems of poverty, inflation and insecurity.” 

“When we began to grow and look the head had three unexpected shocks: the capital outflow from emerging markets, the drought that affected as ever in fifty years the Argentine countryside and the cause of notebooks.” Everything we caught half way”, he said.
“I am the first to find out what they have been these months, how much pain, how much anguish and have made me charge it”, closed the President. 
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