An increase in poverty will never be good news, even if it is a very moderate 2.5 percentage points. We are already at 20 million people, including 5.7 million indigent people, who occupy the last step of the social pyramid.
The issue anchors in an economy that has entered a deep recession zone where there will be no opportunities to get a job at all. The need to move forward with a well-armed and targeted economic plan on several fronts sounds obvious, starting with inflation and without neglecting growth.