ROME. Three million more people living below the threshold of survival in seven years: the situation photographed by the Ratio 2016 of the Italian Caritas on policies to combat poverty, published today, is really dramatic. And the numbers are staggering. In 2007, the poor in our Country were 1.8 million, or 3.1% of the total), in 2015, the figure shot up to 4.6 (7.6%), registering an exponential increase in the number of people in conditions of poverty in a relatively short period of time.
A is not a phenomenon that is more limited. According to the report, the conditions of absolute poverty are found mainly in the south, in the families of the elderly, in households with at least three minor children and in those in which none of the family has a job, and seems to have grown – this the given disturbing – in the centre-north, including young families, in the nuclei with one or two minor children, and even those with components employed.
The data, in short, speak a clear language: the problem of poverty touches on today and the entire Italian society, and is not limited as in the past. Our Country remains the only one in Europe, along with Greece, still devoid of a national measure to be universal against destitution is absolute. “The introduction – remind the Caritas has been requested by most parties since the ’90s, without find listening to be none of the Governments that took place in time.”
“Well Renzi, but need to do more.” According to the pastoral organization of the Cei, the current government has had the undoubted merit of “undermining” the historical interest of the Italian policy towards poverty: the stability Law for the year 2016, in particular, with a budget of 600 million euros for 2016, and 1 billion in insured steadily from 2017, it marked a clear discontinuity with respect to the choices of the past, but the efforts made are not yet sufficient. “It’s about understanding – it is the law in the Caritas report – if what has been achieved so far will be followed by the step that’s still missing, that is, from a multi-year investment that supports the actors of the local welfare”.
“A national Plan with a horizon of very limited“. The planned route for the introduction of the Income inclusion (REI), is reminiscent of the Caritas, will stop by 2017, and the percentage of poor people affected does not exceed 35% of the total, leaving the discovery for the most part. From the beginning of the crisis, it detects the document, the absolute poverty, which is the condition of those who do not have the economic resources necessary to live a minimally acceptable, has increased in Italy up to explode. Expand the users of the REI expected in the coming years and put in place actions to accompany their introduction in the territories is, according to the body ministry, the measure needed to be taken to stem the situation almost to collapse.
Needed”2 billion”. In the document there are proposals of a practical nature: “The next law of stability – the law – should increase by a further 500 million to a billion already made available starting from 2017. Given the already existing measures for the poor, you should get to a total of 2 billion euros, with which you will be able to intercept only a portion of the indigent population, certainly less than 35% of the total”. According to Caritas, therefore, for 2017, 2 billion would be an amount sufficient to tackle the problem. Currently, explains the document, “the new appropriations are funding two transitional measures, Support for Active Inclusion (IS) and the Allowance for Unemployment (ASDI), which in the course of 2017 will be absorbed in the REI, the definitive measure. The funding will contribute the resources outlined above and the other that you will decide to allocate”.
The actors of change. The Alliance against poverty in Italy, a group of 37 social actors, from Municipalities to Regions to the bodies of representation of the Third sector is certainly one of the key actors of this phase of change, starting from the elaboration of the Income of Inclusiono Social, a proposal for the precise and articulated that tries to address all the possible nodes to implement.
“we Need new modes of work”. In anticipation of the reform, ultimately, the Caritas also notes that the reality of the local welfare comparing with the implementation of the transitional measures, and this requires mode new work, based above all on inter-institutional cooperation and on building networks between the local institutions for the care of persons in poverty. “Are unusual routes. The point is to turn these labors into a valuable opportunity to start building a new welfare system for the poor: the only road possible and reasonable-is to make them immediately part of a multi-year Plan of development”, says the Caritas in the Report.
The quality of the reform, in conclusion, should not be judged by the size of the budget for the next year, but from the ability to build a concrete project, change the ports to establish, by 2020, a welfare system is intended to moderate, and appropriate to the Italian context.
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