For families with children that have a per capita income of less than 140 reais or 70 dollars a month, the program grants a small sum of money per child (up to three children) as long as they are vaccinated, stay in school, and do not engage in illegal child labor. The Bolsa Família awards families in absolute poverty (per capita income of less than 70 reais or about 35 dollars a month) a small amount of money. Among the most notable was the socioeconomic program, Bolsa Família, or Family Stipend, which Lula created in 2003 during a period of increased economic stability. Lula enacted several significant changes in the Brazilian social sphere.
Despite all of these anxieties, Lula was elected in 2002 in the second-round of the election, garnering 52 million votes, or 61.3% of the total. How would he change economic policies? What would be his approach toward foreign policy and foreign investment in Brazil? How would he diminish the colossal Brazilian debt and increase investment in the country? The real question was, however, whether the Brazilian population was ready to vote for someone so similar to them. His Marxist views caused alarm among many who did not know what to expect if Lula were elected President of Brazil. Lula struggled to shake the image of someone lacking experience in public administration. After running unsuccessfully for the presidency in 1989, 1994, and 1998, Lula a new image as he prepared to make his fourth bid in 2002. He participated in the founding of the Workers? Party (PT, Partido dos Trabalhadores), a left-wing political party created in the waning years of the dictatorship.
An active member in the workers? union in São Bernardo, located in the industrial belt around São Paulo, he eventually became president of the metalworkers? union and led a wave of strikes from 1978 to 1980. His unpolished Portuguese, lack of formal education, and the socialist platform of the Workers? Party he represented scared many among the elite, while his charisma and humble background endeared him to many among lower and middle classes.īorn into poverty in a rural area in the northeastern state of Pernambuco, Lula?s family moved to São Paulo when he was a young child, and he spent his early years as a factory employee in the automobile industry. A metalworker with no schooling, Lula, unlike any other president in Brazilian history, came from the working class. Lula?s lead as the preferred presidential candidate provoked wild reactions. Lula speaks at the House of Representatives (in public domain).
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