The "budgets for young people" only dedicate 3% of the total to them, 15 times less than to pensions

The General Budgets for 2023 are, according to the Government in the document itself, "

".

"They are the strongest guarantee of the future and progress of societies," says the 'yellow book', which dedicates

them, 12,741 million euros, an amount 15 times less than the 190,685 million they will receive all pensions.

The bulk of the investments is taken by the Education section, which receives 3,360 million, 379 more than last year.

"The main asset of any society is people and, in a special way, young people," says the document presented by the Minister of Finance and Public Administration,

.

"It is the responsibility of the public authorities, both for reasons of intergenerational equity and economic efficiency, to provide the environment, tools, training and opportunities that allow young people to

" the Budgets detail.

Therefore, it invests 12,741 million in this development of skills and life projects, although in different items.

To the aforementioned

, we should add, for example, the 236 million dedicated to access to housing and promotion of construction.

A recent study by the Bank of Spain certified that the number of young people under the age of 35 with their own home has plummeted: only 36% of the total can boast of it.

The same report indicates that in 2011 the percentage was close to 70%.

The housing budget item

in Budgets that presume to address "all critical aspects" with measures aimed at ensuring that young people have access, among others, "to affordable housing" or "to a decent job".

The Unemployment policy receives 2,285 million euros for this group with benefits or subsidies to the worker.

For its part, the Research, Development, Innovation and Digitization policy, recipient of 1,179 million euros, "is one of the policies that most contributes to financing actions and measures aimed at reducing job insecurity in this area, facilitating access to R+D+i system for young people, and attract talent".

It consists of aid lines, prizes, scholarships, preparation of studies or investments in connectivity and a large part of its financing comes from the Recovery Plan.

The Government highlights, for example, the program to promote SMEs, which encourages the hiring of unemployed young people, or

through the UNICO-Banda Ancha 2023 Program. This promotion of Internet access, argues the Executive, promotes the connectivity of families "and fundamentally of young people".

and areas of business concentration

are also carried out "under this policy" .

The greatest interannual variation is that registered, precisely,

, which go from receiving nothing to 925 million this year.

The contributory orphan's pension is included, which the bill estimates would contribute to young people "with a figure of around 946 million euros".

There is also a considerable increase -719 million- in what is invested in Social Services and Social Promotion, which goes from 69 to 788 million.

Culture, which 'earns' 266 million euros for a total of 551, is strengthened by the Cultural Bonus, to which 210 million are allocated.

It should be noted that last year the calculation of the resources dedicated to youth was made based on "the total endowment of spending programs that were considered to have a direct or indirect impact on young people", while this year they have requested all the ministries some information collection media "in which the actions that were carried out in the field of youth in the area of ​​each Ministry should be included, as well as the budget items that financed said actions and the part of the budget credit it is estimated that he dedicated to each activity".

That is to say, that the game

, but not be considered as an aid for the youth.

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