POOR UNEMPLOYED ARGENTINE FAMILY STAND WITH EMPTY REFRIGATOR, 2002-05-06 (photo)

Argentine Joel Medina (L), who collects scrap to sell for up to one dollar a day to support his family of four, stands with his wife next to their empty refrigerator in their home in Berazategui, 20 kilometers south of Buenos Aires, May 6, 2002. Financial crisis, unemployment and inflation have pulled nearly a tenth of Argentina's population below the poverty line in the last six months, according to private think-tank, Equis. In a report divulged by Equis on May 9, 2002, 3.2 million people, or 17,500 per day, have become poor in the past six months in Argentina, where they estimate more than half the population is poor. PICTURE TAKEN MAY 6, 2002. REUTERS/Rickey Rogers RR/ME