This text explores, in a concise manner, methodological and conceptual issues surrounding the concept of poverty, analyzes its trends, and promotes reflections on the phenomena of monetary poverty and material and social deprivation. In substantive terms, a diachronic and comparative analysis of the incidence of poverty and its threshold is carried out; the main social categories and territories with the highest incidence of poverty are identified; a simulation of the evolution of the minimum wage on the exposure to poverty of various social categories is presented; the impacts of social transfers and two forms of social vulnerability are measured; and scenarios for the recent evolution of relative monetary poverty and material and social deprivation are conjectured.

The social integration income is a last-resort benefit intended to provide some protection to the very poor. Although it receives considerable attention in the public sphere, this social benefit is not always discussed in an informed manner