AUTHOR: Sandro Trento.
are counted in Italy, in 2008, over 8 million poor, 13% of the population, with a monthly expenditure of less than $ 999 per capita. This phenomenon is particularly widespread in the southern regions: the South 24% of households below the poverty line, five times more than in northern regions. If we consider the families with three or more minor children, the share of poor families in southern exceed 40%. The risk of poverty in Italy grows decreasing age, then you are much more at risk of being poor, if you are young than the elderly: it is a fairly new phenomenon, 30 years ago the situation was exactly reversed, was much more likely to be poor, if you was older than younger people. Among the minors at this time in Italy 19% of minors in Italy belongs to the category of the poor, while only 8 of the sixties, 5% belong to the poor, so we confirm that with decreasing age increases the probability of being poor.
This phenomenon, namely that of child poverty, child poverty is a phenomenon that has no equal in any European country, Italy is a real anomaly in this respect and this explains why in Italy, many families can not afford to make the second or third child, because so many families in Italy are only a child, or even us are couples who do not have children at all. Why? Why have another child may present a risk of falling into the category of the poor and, especially, because in Italy there are tools to help children, there are tools to help families: Most of our welfare system has been consists mainly of support to older people. In general, poverty in Italy is associated with what? At low education, so the lower the level of education, the more likely you are poor, low-profile professionals and to the risk of being excluded from the labor market. 34% of households where the breadwinner is unemployed and poor. The very important aspect to focus on is the very structure of our system of social production, which is a system of social production, which provides a kind of guaranteed minimum income for older people: think of the so-called social pension, but does not provide a minimum income guaranteed for children or minors. We, of Italy of Values, we think this is a true national emergency, it is not acceptable that a member country of the Union European Union, which is part of the seven largest industrial countries, has a quota of poverty so widespread and so pervasive, so we think it important that it is necessary to rethink our social protection system, imagining forms of income support targeted to reduce these areas of social disadvantage. As is done to fight poverty? Action should be taken first on the major items of expenditure: one of the main areas of expenditure is the expenditure for rent, housing. The rental charges are on average for Italian families, 26% of their monthly spending, so it would be important and necessary to introduce forms of rental subsidy, targeted at families poor forms of income support intended to pay the rent.
A second major item of expenditure is represented by food, which are 20% of the average monthly expenditure of Italian families: in this case it would introduce significant forms of income support, not the social card of 40 Euro introduced by Berlusconi last year, 40 Euro monthly social card are nothing to a family who needs to buy food. These affect the ability to purchase food.
Thirdly, it is to intervene on pricing of public services: I think, for example, gas and electricity. In many European countries were established forms of social citizenship, to which the poor are still guaranteed a range of services essential for living, such as gas, electricity, telephones etc., perhaps with special contracts that reduce the options, but ensure that the survival to needy families. These are actions that we believe are necessary to operate on three major items of expenditure, but in general, we believe, like Italy of Values, it is time to think of a real minimum income guarantee, a form of income to support the above families with children: it's time to reasoning of the pact between the generations and to support young families who have young children, minor children, with a form of guaranteed minimum income. This is one of the issues on which we, as the Italian reformers, we need to immediately ask for support for Italian families.
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