Coronavirus turns Chile's middle classes into new poor

is a high degree of fluctuation in household income. Families that leave poverty and families that return to poverty. And that is a snapshot of the high level of fragility that makes it difficult for them to take long term decisions," said Contrerasa.Pablo Martinez is a prime example. In just over one year, the 44-year-old has gone from a successful and solvent engineer living in an upper-middle class neighborhood to barely having enough to live.

He started working as a driver for Uber, but work slowed when the protests broke out in October and dried up completely when the virus lockdown began.Whereas before he"lived relatively comfortably," now he cannot afford to pay the rent.He and his wife have opened a shop selling personalized gifts, while he also gives guitar and piano lessons over the internet.Surveyor Rodrigo Acevedo, 44, is in the same situation.

After his job was suspended, he had to lean on the employment protection law that was created during the pandemic so that employees could access their unemployment insurance.His $1,200 monthly salary meant he didn't qualify for state aid, and he had to take his daughter out of a private college and enroll her in a public school., there is a wide disparity in the level of public and private education and health care.

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