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...belt again if he wins another term, economists agree. Growth is stunted - at an average of 2.6% over the last three years, it is around half the Latin American average and way behind rival emerging markets such as like China and India - but his success with the Bolsa Familia makes victory almost certain, in spite of his lack of action elsewhere. Although he failed to enact the political, union, labor, agrarian or tax reforms he promised, polls put him between 22 and 25 points ahead of nearest rival, Geraldo Alckmin, and within reach of the overall majority that would avoid...
...Lula's initial program to feed the poor was called Fome Zero, but after nine months of teething troubles and mismanagement it morphed into Bolsa Familia, a collection of programs centered around an existing scheme that paid mothers to ensure their kids stay in school. The Bolsa Familia gives households earning up to $56 a month per head a monthly allowance of between $7 and $43. Families earning up to $27 are entitled to $21 more depending on the number of children, pregnant females or young mothers. To qualify, kids between the ages of 6 and 15 must attend...
...people, economists say, are helping breathe life into the economy, especially in the places where it was suffering. While retail sales in the south actually dropped 0.29% in the year ending May 2006, they rose 16% in the impoverished north and northeast thanks largely to the injection of Bolsa Familia cash, says Marcelo Neri, director at a Rio business school and author of a recent report on inequality. "In some places that were so poor that money practically didn't exist, you greased the wheels," Neri said. "That's because of the Bolsa Famila, the rise in the minmum wage...
...More than happy with the Bolsa Familia program that has given nine million of the country's poorest families a guaranteed monthly handout, and credulous of his claims that the elite are out to get him, disadvantaged voters have kept Lula comfortably ahead in the polls and the firm favorite to win the Oct. 1 presidential election...
...programa en la cadena ABC nunca ha sido un ?xito rotundo pero se ha mantenido de manera s?lida en pantalla desde su debut en el 2002, compitiendo con un fen?meno como American Idol. El pr?ximo oto?o le seguir? Freddie, una serie sobre una familia latina protagonizada por Freddie Prinze Jr., el hijo del ?dolo de L?pez, al que el comediante convenci? para que realizara el programa. A?n recuper?ndose de un transplante de ri??n, L?pez se ha asegurado de que su equipo de trabajo emplee Latinos y miembros de otras minor?as. "Entrar a nuestro plat? es como ir a Costco", dice...