Well I’m afraid that I ‘m not going to lift
the mood of this my theme is a theme
Hard is a hard topic that normally
take here those that we pay in which
We make such presentations as
present images images of
children in deplorable situations
very dramatic painful situations and I
I do not want to do that I do not want to do
that’s because basically I do not want and
I do not want to wake up our pity
basically what I want to do is
wake up and take away our sense of
justice and a certain selfish interest
because things change
that is, an interest based on a
certain economic rationality and not
I will present any image I am going to
present a graph
that’s the idea at least this graph of
here that shows us the evolution of
the risk of poverty rate
throughout the last years of the
years of crisis above we can see the
poverty risk rate that line
blue that approaches 30 opa
will exceed 30 in 2014 is the
poverty risk rate of the
population under 18 years
as you can see it is superior to the
other age segments him because we
should worry this is to say I have
come to ibiza eivissa and I am conscious
that the reality of ibiza in principle
we look is very far from what is
can you imagine how a poor society
ibiza is a territory with a large
concentration of wealth and in principle
there may be very few here
people in a situation of poverty that
they consider poor or that they consider
your children are at risk of living this
experience
Well maybe it’s not strange
this situation in ibiza every summer
it will be a very serious housing problem
access to housing is a burden very
heavy that detracts a lot of resources
families and usually they
leave with some resources
limited
that is, there are very situations
similar to the ones I’m describing
today the good that situations occur
similar to the ones I am
writing today is a situation that
gives in many rich societies
that is to say there are very few Spaniards who
car they also consider poor in
around 10% the indicators of
poverty indicate that there are enough
more than there is a 20 percent of
poor Spaniards and one as you can see
30 percent of children in situation
of poverty and also in this rate is
growing is growing in the
recent years is growing since
2004 and had been growing
previously because we must worry
this should not worry us at least
three reasons first reason poverty
childish is especially unfair to be born
and growing up in a poor home is a
lottery is a lottery that touches you
you have not done any merit for
let me touch you
let’s say you have not even bought the
ticket
you are born in a poor home and that marks you
the brand life life and you mark the
death is to say death conditions you
basically to do in a poor home
affects your educational progress to
increase the chances of
school dropout increased the
likelihood of suffering alive
childhood obesity situations
that move into adult life and
complicated
your health of adult life is poverty
childish is associated with
integration in the labor market is
say children who live in situation
of child poverty has a
highest probability of suffering
situations of unemployment in adult life
they have
a higher probability of seeing
involved in problems with the
justice to be arrested to pass
time in prison is to say being poor
leaves scars that mark your life and
you make in life expectancy at
poor people on average live
less than the richest people in there
very interesting studies to this
respect they show that neighborhoods
poor of the big cities of
cities like big book you live in
many years less than the neighborhoods
rich the trait in concrete 24 years
less than the wealthy neighborhoods of
medium term
that basically means that the
difference between living in a rich neighborhood
and in a poor neighborhood of glasgow is
equivalent to the difference of living in
England
wright and where we also find 24
years of difference in life expectancy
they are like Russian dolls according to
the Spanish cities the difference is
smaller of 89 years but there is
second great reason to worry about
child poverty is a subject of
coexistence is to say poverty in
general threatens the coexistence of
etts of western societies
tension to the societies generated
violence generates distrust generates
insecurity the people who live in
unequal societies
where there is a lot of poverty lives in
societies that the levels of
trust in the other are very low and the
Trust is an element an ingredient
very important to cement the
cohesion and the quality of a society
with the confidence of trust depends
for example the quality of a democracy
that there is no corruption that people
feel and effective when raising
say an alternative government
Trust is a fundamental element
is what economists call the
Social capital and trust do not exist
unequal societies
unequal
homicide rates are higher
in unequal societies
the number of people in prison is
highest and all these problems are
gesta in childhood in some
European cities during the past
years we have seen how determined
deprivation adversity problems
economics in childhood have ended
generating social disturbances riots
socials that simply express that
disaffection is someone action of the
groups of the most disadvantaged groups
regarding the whole of society
third great reason is a reason
Economic Child Poverty
poverty in general represents a burden
economic for any kind of
society is the first place a cost
indirect economic
economists call a cost of
opportunity and it’s the cost at which
incurred for not doing something
what could you have done is to say
allow a relatively percentage
high of children remain in
situations of poverty what the
economists call and not capillary not
optimally capitalize your talents
natural means to waste the
talent with what he was born with
these children do not allow them to do the
contributions the innovations that
these children are able to do when not
allow them to make those contributions
those innovations let’s say we leave them
back we do not allow a person
talented to become an engineer or
become a programmer
computer and contribute their
quotes to finance our
public services to finance our
ability to finance our
education to finance our being
the social ones I tell you a small
history the story of Carlos Carlos is
a boy a boy of Colombian origin
whom we interview during a series
of consecutive years in a study
sociological and we started doing some
years before the crisis
we interviewed teenagers
vulnerable in catalonia during four
consecutive years in a survey and
then some of them
We interview thoroughly in an interview
personal
Carlos was a boy with great notes
he got great notes and they closed a lot of
his family
in fact in a psychologist in a
a certain moment he passed a test and
I had about 128 that is to say I was on the edge
of the giftedness carlos finished his
Secondary school studies and
he entered the university to study
aeronautical engineering since it always
they had taken care of which meat was
it’s all worth it
despite the narrowness that
they lived were quite intense in
some moments his father worked in
construction and work during a
time was continuous but began to
scarce and at a certain moment
let’s even start to pass
economic difficulties the one there
economic difficulties that
aggravated to the point that
they could defray their bible they finished
being evicted and in the parents of
Carlos decided that it was time to
back to colombia carlos terrain leaving
his studies and returning to Colombia with
they
Today Carlos is a driver in Medellín
things are going well
get married but we have lost an engineer
Aeronautical in Spain we have lost
aeronautical engineer who had
charged a good salary that opened the
worked in an innovative way to
our country that there had to be
contributed to the economy of
knowledge to
our economy is more competitive in
the world is to say we have lost a
important piece of child poverty
it has costs some costs
economic that are fundamentally
opportunity costs the costs of what
what could have been and was not
basically because Carlos and others like
Carlos did not make the contributions that
could have made poverty
economic child poverty has
other type of charging costs for the
society all the problems that they
obesity mentioned before the
health problems the problems of
labor integration the prisons the
police
let’s say poverty management the
poverty management with jobs
social workers with social workers
it costs money it costs us money every
year costs us a lot of money every year
in Spain this could not be estimated
still but in the united states yes that
the cost of poverty has been estimated
child is equivalent to 4 percent of the
gross domestic product of 4 percent
of national wealth 4 percent
of the national wealth in Spain are 40
one billion euros 40,000 million
euros is an exorbitant figure
is a figure that equals all
cuts that have occurred from the
crisis with 40,000 million euros
basically with half
these are calculations that we have made
different researchers
we could eradicate completely the
child poverty we had 20 thousand
we have twenty billion euros left
to fight another kind of injustice
social issues and thereby improve our
society from the point of view of
equity and economic efficiency
thank you very much
the lionesses
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