Former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) stated that, during the PT governments (2003-2016), for the first time in the country, “the poorest 10% had, proportionally, more income than the richest 10%. ”.
The PT member also said, during a meeting with unionists, on April 14, that during his party’s administrations, 22 million jobs were created with a formal contract.
Figures from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) indicate that, during Lula’s government, the income of the poorest population grew proportionately more than that of the richest part. However, the poorest 10% did not “have more income” than the richest, as the former president stated.
Regarding job creation, a report from the International Labor Organization (ILO) and data from the General Register of Employed and Unemployed (Caged) indicate that, although the balance of the period in which the party ruled the country is positive, it does not reach the numbers mentioned by PT.
What did Lula say?
“You know that I owe a lot to the trade union movement. My government’s right. There were few meetings that we had. It was not a few times that you went to Brasília to collect. There were many times that I called you to talk and there, in Brasília, often disagreeing, often not having convergence, we managed to establish a type of government that generated, in 13 years, 22 million jobs with a formal contract . For the first time in the history of this country, the poorest 10% had proportionally more income than the richest 10%.
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, during an event, on April 14
Income of the poorest population did not exceed that of the richest
Data from the IBGE’s Continuous National Household Sample Survey (Pnad Contínua), compiled in 2011 by the Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) indicate that, during the Lula government (2003-2010), the income of the poorest Brazilians increased proportionately more than than the richest.
According to the report, which takes into account the variation in per capita earnings of different strata of Brazilian society, the poorest 10% of the population had an increase of 69.08% in their income between 2003 and 2010. On the other hand, the 10% the richest had an increase of 12.80% in their income.
The income of the poorest classes showed the greatest proportional increase. However, in absolute numbers, the income of the poorest 10% did not increase more than that of the richest 10%. The poorest also did not add more income than the richest in PT administrations.
18 million new formal jobs
Lula has said on several occasions that “22 million jobs” were created during PT governments. The former president published this same data on his Twitter account in November 2020.
According to the report “Profile of Decent Work in Brazil: a look at the units of the federation”, prepared by the ILO, formal jobs, with a formal contract, had a positive variation of 15,384,442 in the eight years that Lula headed the Brazilian executive.
By the end of 2002, there were about 28.6 million workers with a formal contract in the country. In December 2010, the last month of PT’s second term, there were just over 44 million.
The other five years (from 2011 to 2015) mentioned by the former president are those in which his successor, Dilma Rousseff (PT), was at the head of the government. The balance was 3,218,195 signed portfolios, according to surveys by Caged. In the sum of the two administrations, the balance of formal jobs created exceeds 18.6 million.
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Source: CNN Brasil
