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Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
Introduction "Well, just like that, off the top of my head, a metaphor comes to mind: we at Pane Quotidiano (Daily Bread) are the ones who, when the river overflows, put sandbags near the banks to prevent the river from overflowing even more."[1] These are the words of Luigi Rossi, vice president of the Pane Quotidiano Association. Anyone who has walked along Viale Toscana at 8 in the morning ...
Disadvantaged Stories as Inheritance
The scenario Poverty in Italy today remains at historic highs, in continuity with the year of the pandemic that in just twelve months increased the number of poor people by one million (Figure 1). It is a phenomenon that can now be considered structural in our country, as it affects 9.4 percent of the population; almost one resident out of ten lives in a condition of absolute poverty. If we consider ...
The Entirely Italian “Poverty Regime”
Premise: how do we measure poverty? What poverty is and how it can be measured is the subject of many theoretical and methodological debates that do not provide, nor could they provide, a single answer. It is not just a matter of choosing between a multidimensional or a unidimensional conception of poverty, and therefore which indicators to use (only economic or also human and social capital, ...
More Light in the World of the Homeless
Giorgio’s story Giorgio recently turned sixty. He is Italian and has had a precarious job for years. "I have always worked," he tells us when we meet him, "but you know how it is... sometimes as a freelancer, sometimes under the table, other times with a real contract... it depended on the circumstances and what I had to do." Time has passed quickly and now Giorgio finds himself in a ...
Poor But … Poor
The famous film by Dino Risi, Poveri ma belli, was made in 1956. Two more followed, composing a trilogy[1] in which poverty was explicitly mentioned in the titles but associated - unlike neorealist cinema - with the comedy genre. Italy in the 1950s was a poor country that had just emerged from the material devastation and destruction of World War II. The parliamentary inquiry of 1953 had indicated ...