Covid-19: one million Italians fall into absolute poverty
In Italy, according to its latest report, the National Statistical Institute has identified 14 million people in serious difficulty.
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The preliminary results of the survey by Istat, the Italian Institute of Statistics, published Thursday, March 4, confirm the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic on the wallet and the standard of living in the boot.
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The increase in precariousness is more noticeable among families where the reference person has a job.
They represent 227 of the 335,000 additional households in a situation of absolute poverty.
For more than half, the head of the family is a worker or assimilated, 20% are self-employed.
The southern part of Italy is still more affected by absolute poverty.
But, it is in the North that it increased the most with the Covid-19 pandemic, the rate rising from 5.8% of families in 2019 to 7.6% in 2020.
The characteristics of the home also have an impact.
The rate remains stable for unattached individuals, while it has increased by almost three percentage points for lone-parent families.
The crisis linked to the pandemic has thus erased the progress made in 2019. With the Covid-19, absolute poverty in the boot has even reached a record since 2005, when Istat began to calculate this indicator.
Istat nonetheless underlines that the intensity of absolute poverty has globally fallen ... a sign that families who have fallen below the threshold have not moved away from it, thanks in part to public aid.
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