New data from Argentina shows the real answer to poverty

April 4, 2026

Washington Post: The share of Argentines living in poverty was 28 percent at the end of 2025. That’s no small improvement. Since he entered the Casa Rosada in December 2023, one of the biggest criticisms of Milei’s free market agenda has been that poverty figures remained stubbornly high. The national poverty rate peaked at 53 percent in the first half of 2024, but it’s been plunging since…