https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Spain in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Three months after Spain rushed to launch a minimum basic income scheme to fight a spike in poverty due to the coronavirus pandemic, the programme is at a dead-end because of an avalanche of applications. https://www.thelocal.es/20200830/spains-basic-income-scheme-hits-backlog-dead-end Sun, 30 Aug 2020 11:26:17 +0200 spains-basic-income-scheme-hits-backlog-dead-end Spain's rich have been left virtually unaffected by the crisis while the poor have seen their incomes seriously dented, a new OECD study shows. Here The Local outlines the report's key findings. https://www.thelocal.es/20140318/spains-rich-breeze-through-crisis Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:17:00 +0100 spains-rich-breeze-through-crisis Spaniards earn more than three times the global median income of $2,920 (€2,120), new research shows, but still pocket a median of only $7,284 a year. https://www.thelocal.es/20131217/spain-on-world-rich-list Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:07:00 +0100 spain-on-world-rich-list Juan Jimenez took advantage of a day off to join his partner in collecting their one-year-old son Pablo from a private daycare which the couple struggle to pay for. https://www.thelocal.es/20130725/working-mums-woes-keep-spains-birthrate-low Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:41:00 +0200 working-mums-woes-keep-spains-birthrate-low