Lula's Election Handout: 20 Million Families Get 15% Boost Days Before Vote
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Some 20 million Brazilian families begin receiving a 15% increase in the Bolsa Família social programme this week. The boost is the centrepiece of a broad package of aid, subsidies and tax cuts announced by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in the final stretch of the campaign for Sunday's runoff. Lula faces Senator Flávio Bolsonaro in a statistical tie.