Italy’s poverty rate hits all-time high in 2021

Italy’s poverty rate hits all-time high in 2021

(ANSA) – Rome, 17 October – Poverty in Italy remains at an all-time high in 2021, adapting to peaks reached in 2020 when the COVID pandemic began, Catholic charity Caritas says , said in the 21st Annual Report on Poverty and Social Exclusion, which was published on the 21st. Monday is United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.

According to the report, 1.96 million households will be in absolute poverty in 2021, equivalent to 5.571 million people, or 9.4% of Italy’s resident population.

In Mezzogiorno, the poorer south of the country, incidence remains high, with 10% of households living […]

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