{"id":99207,"date":"2020-10-31T16:07:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T08:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=99207"},"modified":"2020-10-31T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T08:07:42","slug":"argentina-extends-social-welfare-coverage-to-one-million-more-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=99207","title":{"rendered":"Argentina extends social welfare coverage to one million more children"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/78670\/0x0\/0000882831.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/78670\/760x480\/0000882831.jpg\" alt=\"The Universal Child Allowance contributes some US$ 45 per child basically for  needy or vulnerable households \"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BUENOS AIRES, Oct 31 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) &#8212; Argentine President Alberto Fernandez signed a decree that extends social welfare coverage to one million more children and teenagers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is allocating Universal Child Allowance, which amounts to 30 billion pesos (some US$ 383 million), to expand the program. The allowance contributes 3,540 Pesos (some US$ 45) per child to needy households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When the plan was first launched 11 years ago, \u201cit was something revolutionary in social security in Argentina. It marked the first time that a plan was universalized to protect the most vulnerable children, and that plan has worked very well, reaching those who need it the most,\u201d said president Fernandez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program currently covers 4 million minors up to 18 years of age whose mother or father is unemployed, or doing informal jobs, or belongs to vulnerable groups. &#8212; NNN-MERCOPRESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUENOS AIRES, Oct 31 (NNN-MERCOPRESS) &#8212; Argentine President Alberto Fernandez signed a decree that extends social welfare coverage to one million more children and teenagers. The government is allocating Universal Child Allowance, which amounts to 30 billion pesos (some US$ 383 million), to expand the program. The allowance contributes 3,540 Pesos (some US$ 45) per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":99208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/99208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}