Spain’s big poverty problem

Eight million Spaniards will live below the poverty line by 2025 if the government does not cut down on the austerity measures, according to a report by Oxfam published this week.
That would mean that one in every three citizens out of the 25 million total predicted by the association all over Europe would be from Spain. Oxfam predicts that society will become more “unequal, unfair and poor” if the “catastrophic scenario” does not change right away, warning that the number could go up to 20 million just in the Iberian country very soon.
Teresa Cavero from the department that conducted the survey, confirmed that the number of citizens living in poverty has increased at a rate of half a million per year adding that the basis for “a tremendously unfair society” is already set and the difference between social classes is going through the roof at an alarming pace. Before the recession, 20 percent of the richest people in Spain earned 5,3 more than the 20 percent of the poorest.