Política de renda mínima no Brasil : análise dos postulados do Programa Bolsa Família

Abstract

Since its creation, the Bolsa Família Program by the extention that it has taken has been the most propagated way of combating poverty and social inequality in the Brazil. In the context, however, where it was created and expanded, the country, submitted to neoliberal prescriptions, had taken economic measures that provided the greatest advancement of financial capital on the public fund. Thus, under the aegis of modern capitalism, the Bolsa Família presents the principles of a focused social policy, that, submissive to the economic policy favoring the interest bearing capital, only mitigates extreme poverty, while, on the other hand, the capital feeds itself on exorbitant amounts of money from the public fund. This study therefore is to examine the central aspects of this program considering its economic and political-philosophical fundamentals. From a critical-dialectical approach, we used the bibliographic and documentary research to examine the program and its relationship with the economic policy of the Lula government. It was also analyzed the political concept of the Bolsa Família from a rescue literature on the main proposals of minimum income in the world context, helping to explain its inner logic and its political-philosophical. Therefore, it was realized that the Bolsa Família is a minimum income policy in Brazil, anchored on a theoretical framework advocated by the champions of neoliberalism and consistent with its proposed minimum income called the Negative Income Tax.