Spain records highest child poverty rate in EU at 28.4%

Over 300,000 additional children have entered poverty in Spain, with 28.4% of minors now at risk of poverty—the highest rate in the European Union.

Among the wealthiest nations on Earth, Spain now carries the heaviest burden of child poverty in the European Union — nearly one in three of its children living at or below the edge of deprivation. This is not a story of sudden catastrophe but of accumulated neglect: wages that could not keep pace, housing costs that consumed what little remained, and safety nets that frayed quietly over years. More than 300,000 additional children have crossed into poverty in recent years, and in their numbers lies a question every society must eventually answer — what does it mean to build prosperity if its

Spain records highest child poverty rate in EU at 28.4%

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