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Rethinking Italy’s Citizens’ Income
Let's take a moment to think: from 2019 to today, beyond the pandemic which has recently ceased to be a topic of discussion, and the war which has undoubtedly conquered the pages of newspapers, albeit intermittently, what has been one of the most debated topics in our country, continually present in national and local press? There is no doubt that the first place goes to the Citizens’ Income (RdC). ...
Youth and Work: A Crucial Issue
Why talk about youth and poverty today? Because in our country, young people, even when employed, are increasingly exposed to this risk: according to the latest ISTAT data, referring to 2021, the incidence of absolute poverty is 14.2 percent for minors, 11.1 percent for young people between eighteen and thirty-four years old, 9.1 percent for adults between thirty-five and sixty-four years old, and ...
The Sentimental Re-education of Businesses
On April 20th, the experimental launch of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took place. This rocket is intended to return humans to the moon and possibly to Mars. The launch was followed live by millions of people and received extensive media coverage. Just minutes after liftoff, the rocket lost control and was made to explode. In the now long history of space flights, this was not the ...
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 ...