People in Bari, Apulia. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP
Job centres in the south of Italy say they have received several inquiries about applying for a universal basic income, one of the signature campaign pledges of the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S).
“The M5S won, now give us the forms for the basic income,” staff at job centres around Bari, in the south-eastern region of Apulia, have reported hearing since a general election last weekend that made the M5S Italy’s single biggest party.Around 50 people, most of them young, requested application forms between Wednesday and Thursday alone, the manager of one centre told […]
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