De-occupy companies

De-occupy companies

De-occupy companies. Cartoon of 06/08/2023 in CTXT Translation of the cartoon: "Your profile doesn't fit the job of mediator" Imagine that one of those squatters that Antena 3 says invade a hundred houses every day, have colonised your house and you need someone to throw

The bosses of evil

The bosses of evil

Antonio Garamendi, the patron saint of evil. Cartoon of 16/10/2022 in CTXT Garamendi, the president of the bosses of evil, says that you can't talk about rich and poor because that radicalises people. He said this in one of those "economic" forums organised by a

Food insecurity

Food insecurity

Translation of the cartoon: -I'm hungry-It says food insecurity, so it's clear that you are educated. The first definition spat out by the search engine of this redefinition by poverty concept at a glance is that of FAO and it goes like this: "A person

Ossorio and the poor

Ossorio and the poor

Ossorio and the poor. Cartoon of 19/03/2022 in CTXT The poor are a nuisance, they sully the idyllic and triumphalist landscape that politicians try to recreate. And what is worse, they demonstrate the failure of the management of wretches like Enrique Matías Ossorio Crespo, spokesman

Evolution of the Housing Plan

Evolution of the Housing Plan

Evolution of the Housing Plan. Cartoon of Sunday 16/01/2022 in CTXT. According to it reads the new Housing Plan 2022-2025, which is supposed to be approved today in the Council of Ministers, will revolve around rental subsidies and" housing solutions" (we will come back to

Newspeak 2021

Newspeak 2021

Newspeak. Cartoon of 17/07/2021 in CTXT This week we read that the pandemic raised poverty in 2020 to the highest level since the Great Recession of 2008. That in Spain there was already poverty of the bad kind before, not to mention that periodic poverty

Housing Act

Housing Act

Translation cartoon: "You'll never get a house in your fucking life You'll never have a house in your fucking life and no money to rent it". Fair rent. Cartoon of 20/03/2021 in CTXT You blink twice and 15 years have gone by. Those were times

Newspeak about housing

Newspeak about housing

Translation of the cartoon:I bring you good news!You have just been designated as a "vulnerable person with no housing alternative". Newspeak, cartoon of 24/01/2021 on CTXT We are living in a new and glorious era of gilipollesque etymological twisting. A few days ago I was

Poverty is in your mind

Poverty is in your mind

Yes, poverty is in your mind. Cartoon translation: "I need a job" "But haven't you tried desiring it with all your strength?" If you imagine you are forty years younger you can work forty years longer. Now, TrendingCoolFashion is to brag that you are working

Child poverty

Child poverty

Child poverty. Cartoon of 24/11/2019 in CTXT That's how I see it, as a punch. First it's a sovereign slap in the face of the weakest, those we should be protecting and caring for. Then it's another one in the faces of those who govern

World Savings Day

World Savings Day

World Savings Day Cartoon of 31/09/2018 in CTXT World Savings Day has been celebrated on 31 October since 1924. The reason is that this was the date of the closing of the first International Savings Congress in Milan. The aim is supposed to be to

Inequality

Inequality

Inequality. Vignette of 26/11/2017 in CTXT The European Commission describes the level of inequality in Spain as "critical". A socio-economic analysis of the 28 EU countries does not leave our country in a good place in terms of social welfare, placing us in seventh position

Working in Europe

Working in Europe

didn't you go to Europe? "I had to go back. I was working delivering food, but I couldn't afford to eat" Working in Europe. Cartoon of Saturday 22 July 2017 in CTXT "Jinn" is another app from a food delivery company. Jinn means genius in

Poverty is normalised

Poverty is normalised

Poverty is normalised. Cartoon of 24/06/2017 in CTXT The report "Desprotección Social y Estrategias Familiares" by Cáritas and FOESSA Foundation concludes that, three years after the start of the new economic cycle, 70% of households have not perceived that the effects of the economic recovery