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In 2014 a million and 470 thousand households (5.7% of the residents) is in absolute poverty, for a total of 4 million 102 thousand people ( 6.8% of the population). This was announced by ISTAT. After two years of increase, the incidence of absolute poverty remained substantially stable; considering the sampling error, the decrease compared to 2013 the number of families and individuals in absolute poverty (6.3% and 7.3% respectively), it is not statistically significant (ie it can not be considered different from zero).
Absolute poverty is substantially stable in the area, came to 4.2% in the North, 4.8% in Central and 8, 6% in the South. It improves the situation of couples with children (including those who have two the incidence of absolute poverty going from 8.6% to 5.9%), and households headed by a person aged 45 to 54 years (from 7.4% to 6%); absolute poverty decreased among households headed by a person seeking employment (from 23.7% to 16.2%), as a result of the fact that more often, compared to 2013, these families have in-house employees or retired from work. Despite the decline (from 12.1 to 9.2%), absolute poverty remains almost double in small towns of the South compared to that observed in the metropolitan areas of the same division (5.8%). The opposite happens in the north, where extreme poverty is higher in urban areas (7.4%) compared to other municipalities (3.2% among the large, 3.9% among children).
Among families with foreign absolute poverty it is more widespread than in households composed solely by Italians: from 4.3% of the latter (a slight improvement to 5.1 % in 2013) to 12.9% for mixed families up to 23.4% for those made up of only foreigners. In the North and Centre poverty among families of foreigners it is over 6 times that of the families of only Italian in the South is about triple. The incidence of absolute poverty falls with increasing qualification: if the reference person is at least a diploma, the incidence (3.2%) is almost one-third of that recorded for those with a primary school (8.4 %). In addition, absolute poverty concerns marginally families headed by entrepreneurs, professionals or executives (the incidence is less than 2%), it remains below the average of the families of retired from work (4.4% ), rising to 9.7% among families of workers to achieve the maximum value among those with contact person seeking employment (16.2%).
As the absolute, relative poverty is stable and involves, in 2014, 10.3% of families and 12.9% of the residents, for a total of 2,000,000 654,000 7,000,000 households and 815,000 people. Even for relative poverty confirms the stability, over the previous year, detected by the absolute poverty by geographical area and the improvement of the condition of families headed by a person seeking employment (the incidence of poverty fell from 32 , 3% to 23.9%) or residents in small towns of the South (from 25.8% to 23.7%); in the latter case, the improvement is in contrast to the slight worsening in large municipalities over the previous year (from 16.3% to 19.8%).
And with these data, “Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has many reasons to declare victory – says Michela Vittoria Brambilla, President of the Parliamentary Commission for Childhood and Adolescence – Istat data on children are of unprecedented severity. One million and 45 thousand children live in a state of absolute poverty. ” And again: “I hope ad hoc interventions and clear policies and decided to minors, starting dall’agognato Plan for Children which are needed for targeted funding. Urgent action is needed for our children to have access to higher education, to proper nutrition and basic health care. “
” A huge social problem – says Cesare Damiano , chairman of the Committee on Labor of the House – that must be addressed by dividing audiences of citizens interested in the issue on the basis of their objective conditions. ” Damian adds that “Who is to deal with the absolute poverty – continues – is assisted with a minimum income; the millions of pensioners who come to EUR 600 per month must have a proper indexing of the check and do not care: we enhance their fourteenth established by the Prodi government bringing the amount paid in July each year to 700 euro. “
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