Nearly 40 million Brazilians have benefited from the country's economic growth and social programmes in the last decade, helping them rise out of poverty and become the new middle class.<br />But many of them still only receive the minimum wage and say it is not enough to cover their basic needs like education and health.<br />It is one of the reasons Brazilians say they have taken to the streets to protest in the country's latest demonstrations. <br />Al Jazeera's Mariana Sanchez reports from Rio de Janeiro.
