Madrid/Palma.— More than a third of children in Spain live at risk of poverty, the aid charity Save the Children said yesterday, blaming austerity measures for worsening the situation.
The number of under-18s “at risk of poverty or marginalisation” - an official EU measure of various aspects of economic hardship - soared to more than 2.8 million in 2012, the charity said.
That was equivalent to 33.8 percent of Spain’s children, it said in a report that used the latest official European Union data.
A third of children in Spain face poverty warns charity
Children and parents queue for food at a food bank in Palma. | Pere Bota