Editorial: El País

• Spain faces a chronic child poverty problem, with a 28.9% of minors under 18 at risk of poverty in 2023, the highest rate in the EU.
• The increase in interest rates, affecting prices and rents, has especially hit the most vulnerable.
• The cost of housing is becoming a factor increasing child poverty and inequality.
• Single-parent families and households with children face significantly higher poverty rates.
• Spain is one of the EU countries that redistribute its fiscal system the least and invest the least in child and family policies.
• The government approved a plan in 2023 to implement child guarantees, aiming to remove over 700,000 children from the risk of social exclusion by 2030.

Conclusion: Child poverty in Spain is a crisis requiring better fiscal redistribution and increased investment in childhood and family policies. Measures to tackle social exclusion are fundamental for improving the country's present and future.

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