Before covid-19, 12% of Spaniards fell below the 40%-of-median-income threshold, against 7% of people in the EU as a whole
southern Madrid there are queues for food at community centres and parish soup kitchens. Caritas, a Catholic charity, reports a surge in demand for its help. Covid-19 has exposed holes in Spain’s welfare state, just as the slump after 2008 did. This time, though, the government is trying to plug the gaps. Some of the aid is temporary: almost 4m furloughed workers have been getting 70% of their wages paid by the state, which has also made emergency payments to 1.2m self-employed people.
Spain has long had a poverty problem, partly because successive governments have concentrated on transport infrastructure, in a large and mountainous country, rather than social assistance. Before the virus struck, 12.4% of Spaniards fell below the 40% of median income threshold. In theUntil now social assistance has been the purview of the regions, and varies greatly. The rich Basque country is generous; poor Andalucía is not.
For Mr Sánchez’s minority government, that is balm after a rough fortnight. Spaniards are reeling from one of the world’s worst covid-19 epidemics. By the official count, 28,000 people have died. A strict lockdown has brought the virus under control. Officials are defensive over accusations that they were slow to impose it.
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