Brazil's Rousseff says extreme poverty almost eradicated

BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff on Tuesday raised the monthly stipend of 2.5 million people living below the poverty line to make good on her promise to eradicate extreme poverty in Brazil, a nation with enormous income gaps between rich and poor.

She said she has almost met her anti-poverty target halfway through her four-year term, though Brazil's last census points to 700,000 Brazilian families who still live in extreme poverty but are not registered on government social programs.