| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2009 
Hunger Increases in Mexico City
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October 25, 2009
 |  | The Mexico city government alone spent 37 billion pesos in anti-poverty programs to benefit those who do not even meet the 31 pesos minimum the government considers a persons has to spend on food for basic feeding. |  | | |
Mexico City continues to be the nation's leading magnet for people looking for an opportunity to improve their living standard.
While this is true, it is also a fact that the number of persons going hungry is increasing.
A poll made public last week by the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Policies (Coneval) the number of persons in the city who can't make ends meet rose between 2005 and 2008 by 184,000 from 902,000 to 1.86 million.
At the national level, Coneval figures are harsher as the number in the same period went from 14.4 to 19.5 million.
Both the city and the federal governments are spending huge amounts of money to try and solve this growing problem.
The Mexico city government alone spent 37 billion pesos in anti-poverty programs to benefit those who do not even meet the 31 pesos minimum the government considers a persons has to spend on food for basic feeding, excluding meat, according to the Coneval poll.
Though the social programs exist, their effectiveness has not been transparently evaluated, so their true impact cannot be measured with clarity.
For instance, the Communal Dining Halls program launched this year by the city government is said to reach only 10 percent of the 614,000 registered dire poverty recipients.
That is, only 60,000 get at least one solid full meal a day at a cost of 10 pesos.
This is the price the city pays for being the land of opportunity.
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