One-Third of Children in Spain Face Poverty

Risk of poverty among children in Spain is more than one-third owing to the worsening of the austerity measures, says aid charity Save The Children on Wednesday. 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 ...