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http://tvbrasil.ebc.com.br The number of Brazilians living below the poverty line grows Diálogo Brasil On Air on 10/09/2017 - 22:00 Around 3.6 million people are expected to return to poverty this year in Brazil, according to estimates by the World Bank. They will join another 16 million who already live below the poverty line, with less than R$230 per month. And the situation becomes even more terrifying with the information from the humanitarian organization Oxfam Brasil – which is part of a confederation that operates in 94 countries – that the wealth accumulated by just six Brazilian billionaires is equal to that of almost 100 million people. To discuss the topic, Diálogo Brasil this Monday, October 9, interviews Rafael Guerreiro Osório, a planning and research technician at the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea), and Luis Otávio Teles Assumpção, a doctor in sociology and professor at the Catholic University of Brasília. For Oxfam Brazil, inequality is reversible. Osório agrees, but says there are no moves to reverse it. “Congress has just approved a debt forgiveness package for large debtors, at a time when there are no resources to engage in politics, when revenue is falling and the hole is getting bigger and bigger,” he criticizes. According to Rafael Osório, inequality is crystallizing and there are many difficulties in combating it. For Luis Otávio Teles Assumpção, it is a “slave-owning colonial legacy.” He also points to Congress and the current legislature, which he considers to be extremely conservative. The executive director of Oxfam Brazil, sociologist Katia Maia, who recorded a video for the program, criticizes the approval by the Legislature of a proposed constitutional amendment that sets a ceiling for public spending. In another video appearance, socioeconomist Sandra Quintela, general coordinator of the Institute of Alternative Policies for the Southern Cone, highlights the differences in income by gender and skin color. In her opinion, Brazil needs to go beyond welfare policies to correct inequalities. Sociologist and technical advisor at the Feminist Center for Studies and Advisory (Cfemea), Jolúzia Batista, emphasizes that, among inequalities, the greatest continues to be that of black women in relation to the rest of the population. Diálogo Brasil airs every Monday at 10 pm on TV Brasil.