One in three children in Spain lives at risk of poverty, the international charity ... but the unemployment rate remains high at more than 26%, with nearly six million Spaniards out of work.
Key cabinet ministers in Spain’s government are pushing for a new universal child benefit in the 2025 budget. The benefit has ...
Caritas expects the situation to get worse in 2012. Spain is among the European countries with the highest poverty rates, totalling up to 21.8% of the population -- over the EU average of 16.4%.