Tag: extreme poverty
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The year 2021 did not begin well in Brazil. The number of Covid-19 infections has risen again. The rolling average of deaths again exceeds one thousand a day. This situation, coupled with the federal...
By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The number of Brazilians living below the poverty line in the country increased by over two million people from 2016 and 2017, according to a new report by Brazil’s...
By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - According to a new study, government news agencies are reporting about seventeen million children under the age of fourteen - equivalent to 40.2 percent of the Brazilian population in this...
