O Programa Bolsa Família: um estudo sobre a desigualdade de renda e a pobreza no estado do Tocantins (2004-2013)

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to promote a discussion about poverty under a historical analysis of the capitalist system development, the worker class origin and the result of this process: exploitation, inequality and misery. Under this theoretical approach is possible to comprehend how capitalist society is structured to assure exploitation and, at the same time, how the worker class organized itself to assure its political rights. The conflicts of the political sphere lead the State to distinctive roles trying to keep social cohesion and as a result from this process social programs and politics. In the Brazilian case, the programs of income distribution under conditionality as a form to fight against poverty became evident under the national sphere in 1990 and on, those actions intensified in the 2000’s after the creation of the minimum income federal program, Programa Bolsa Família (PBF), which reaches every Brazilian county. In the Tocantins state the PBF took thousands of families from the extreme poverty condition, although the income concentration was not impacted.