China News Service, June 17, according to the European Union, citing the European Union News Agency, the Italian National Institute of Statistics recently released a social family income statistical evaluation report that pointed out that affected by the new crown epidemic, the absolute poverty of Italian society is expected to increase by 1 million in 2020 The total number of people will exceed 560.
The report pointed out that in 2019, there were nearly 1.7 million absolutely impoverished families in Italian society and about 4.6 million poor people. The number of families in relative poverty is about 3 million, accounting for 11.4% of the total number of Italian families, and the relative poor population is 8.8 million, accounting for 14.7% of the total social population.
The European Cooperative Union pointed out that among the poor people living in Italy, there are about 51,000 people who are homeless. Affected by the new crown epidemic, the trend of social poverty will further deteriorate, even affecting children and elderly people.
The European Cooperative Union said that most homeless people in Italy are men, half of whom are foreign immigrants. Among the nearly 4.6 million poor people, one-third are elderly people over 65 years old. These poor people sometimes cannot even pay for food, electricity and heating.
The Italian Farming Association pointed out that most of the newly added socially impoverished population in 2020 are unemployed, handicraftsmen and traders forced to close their businesses, and temporary workers who have not signed long-term work contracts and have no savings. (Lin Zhuqing)