(ANSA) – ROME, OCT 17 – Italian poverty continued to be at an all-time high in 2021, conforming its peaks attained in 2020 when the COVID pandemic began, Catholic charity Caritas said in its XXI report on poverty and social exclusion issued on the UN’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on Monday.
There were 1.96 million families in absolute poverty in 2021, amounting to 5,571,000 people or 9.4% of Italy’s resident population, the report said.
Incidence is still higher in the poorer south of the country, the Mezzogiorno, with 10% of households in absolute poverty last year, […]
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