340,000 Michoacans Rise Out of Poverty, According to Coneval: Bedolla

In Michoacán there is less poverty: Coneval.
Between 2018 and 2022, the percentage of the population living in poverty fell by 4.5%, from 46.2% to 41.7%.

Morelia, Michoacán. – “As a result of the implementation of welfare programs, the state administration and the federal government, 340,000 Michoacans came out of poverty, which represents a decrease of 4.5 percent,” said the governor of the state, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, after the figures of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (Coneval) were published. according to a statement.
He explained that in the period between 2018 and 2022, in Michoacán the population in multidimensional poverty went from 2.4 million to 2.06 million, reflecting an advance in the development and well-being of the families of the state.
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The governor said that in the indicated period, the Coneval measurement showed that 41 out of every 100 people in Michoacán had a monthly income per person insufficient to acquire a food basket, as well as necessary goods and services, a figure that has been reduced, despite the effects of the pandemic.
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The measurement of the population in a situation of moderate poverty in the state also reflects favorable numbers, since it was reduced, going from 40.9 percent to 34.2 percent between 2018 and 2022.
The state president stressed that the actions undertaken by the federal government headed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, have undoubtedly directly favored the Michoacans who have less.

Original source in Spanish