Latest news and stories about poverty in daily life in Portugal for expats and residents.
Inflation disproportionately affects low-income individuals, exacerbating poverty and social inequality.
New data from Portugal's Survey on Living Conditions and Income show one region has the country's highest incidence of monetary poverty, with 17.9% of residents living below the poverty threshold. Analysts and local actors attribute the rise to a combination of state neglect, insufficient social-protection measures, the growth of precarious immigration and unstable work, and wider cost-of-living pressures — factors that together depress incomes and worsen social indicators. The figures point to a need for targeted regional policies on social security, employment quality and integration to reverse the trend.
A social worker took walkers to the Porto where he has worked for 30 years. Between pain and kindness, a journey into the territory of poverty that the State has forgotten. Caminhos a Oriente continues until November.
I see some public figures from culture, media, and academia worrying about poverty only because they loathe the ragged people sleeping in their doorways, but that lasts only a few hours.
As it was presented, the Single Social Benefit moves away from the purpose that gave rise to it. Instead of reducing poverty, it will end up worsening it.
A report indicates a decline in gender equality metrics in Portugal, while progress is noted in the efforts to eradicate poverty and hunger.
An analysis confirming the number of children facing poverty in Portugal.
António José Seguro highlighted the more than 300,000 minors living in poverty in Portugal and called for a mobilisation of society to protect childhood, stressing that inequalities limit opportunities and compromise the country's future.
When two children are abandoned on the side of a road, we can still recognise the cruelty. Perhaps because it happened nearby, because we can imagine the fear, because those children have faces, voices, names, and bodies. Yet, when we are bombarded daily with images of children in Palestine, Sudan, or anywhere else in the world, we look without truly feeling. This is perhaps one of the greatest tragedies of our time: we continue to watch, but we have learned to survive without letting the pain of others affect us too deeply. The suffering of children in war, famine, and displacement has become a continuous flow, almost background noise. Even in Portugal, a significant percentage of children live in poverty and food insecurity. All the children of the world are ours, not in a paternalistic sense, but because the future depends on them. We are capable of the greatest tenderness and the greatest cruelty at the same time, and despite saying that all children are ours, we remain far from caring for them as if they truly were.
Bishop Roberto Mariz states that the ongoing issue of poverty should be a cause for concern for both society at large and Catholic communities.
The candidate backed by the PSD and CDS–PP spoke to journalists during a visit to the Santa Casa da Misericórdia in Ferreira do Alentejo, in the district of Beja.
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Carneiro accused the Government of undervaluing “the national strategy to combat poverty and inequalities” and argued that “the most vulnerable” are feeling this lack of protection from the authorities.
