President Laura Chinchilla stepped into office at a time when more than 50,000 people suffer from extreme poverty, when unemployment is at a 20-year high and when the gap between the wealthy and the poor is continually expanding.
Her plan is to coordinate existing aid so that money no longer arrived in a community in pieces. Too often, she said, a family in poverty would receive a scholarship for a child or money for food, but assistance didn’t come in a way that would really give them that boost to land in the middle class.
She began by creating a Poverty Ministry and directing it to help 26 of the country’s poorest communities draft their own plan for poverty alleviation. Chinchilla’s eventual goal is to lift 20,000 families out of poverty before she leaves office in 2014.
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