The poor are growing in Italy, in a situation that is increasingly at risk: there are around 14 million Italians with their accounts now in the red. These are 8.5 million people at risk of poverty, in a highly precarious situation: among them there are almost 2 million unemployed plus 6.6 million so-called “working poor“, i.e. precarious and underpaid workers. Alongside this is the even heavier condition of over 5 million people who live in absolute poverty. This is what emerges from the recent report by the Unimpresa study centre and the situation is getting worse, with those at risk of poverty slipping inexorably into absolute poverty over the years. Just look at what has happened in recent years: since 2005 the poor have more than doubled, going from 2.4 million to 5.6 million, while the “working poor” have gone from 10.4 million to 8.5 million.
It is therefore a negative balance of 2.2 million in which there is a transition from an area at risk to absolute poverty. «We need a new trajectory, a change of pace towards a different horizon – commented the honorary president of Unimpresa, Paolo Longobardi – it’s about creating the conditions so that companies can grow, invest and create new jobs: less bureaucracy and fewer taxes, with a substantial share of incentives for those who create new, stable employment”.
The precariat
In fact, precarious workers are constantly increasing. They grew from 6 million and 551 thousand subjects in 2022 to 6 million and 603 thousand in 2023, with an increase of 52 thousand units. And the labor market offers less and less stability: workers with part-time fixed-term contracts have gone from 867 thousand to 920 thousand, an increase of 53 thousand units, and workers with involuntary part-time permanent contracts have grown by 17 thousand units from 2 million and 638 thousand to 2 million 655 thousand. There was also an increase in workers with collaboration contracts, which increased from 248 thousand to 250 thousand, and part-time self-employed workers went from 684 thousand to 757 thousand. «The problem of the poor – explains Longobardi – is a tragedy and those who, like me, spend time every day among people, in shops and in markets, realize the difficulties of people. Those who have a business and provide work: create dignity and it is precisely this aspect that is missing.”
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