Politics - Working Poverty, Gadda: "The Government Is Ignoring Reality" - - Varese News

The government talks a lot, but listens little. And it continues to ignore the country's reality. In these thousand days, you've raised the tax rate to 42.6%, cut funding to municipalities, and contributed to the rising cost of living, from grocery shopping to utility bills. The ones paying the price are always the same: the middle class, the working poor, vulnerable families.

This was stated by the vice president of the Italia Viva group, Maria Chiara Gadda, speaking in the Chamber during the vote on the motions regarding in-work poverty.

The government boasts of having done what no one has ever done. And it's true: you have worsened the living conditions of Italians. Your policies—he emphasized—have even pushed workers into Caritas soup kitchens. Since 2019, real wages have fallen by 10.5%. INPS certifies an absolute poverty rate of 7.6%, with dramatic peaks among workers, young people, and women. And while you bask in some positive employment data, you ignore the boom in unwanted part-time jobs, precarious employment, and increasingly low pensions, especially for women.

Gadda then denounced the total lack of answers on crucial issues : “Where are the measures for people with disabilities, for single parents, for those working on unsecured contracts who can't make ends meet? Where are the investments in skills, education, and training? Nothing. Just propaganda. And meanwhile, over 140,000 young people will have left Italy in 2024. This is your failure. It's not enough to flaunt data; we need concrete solutions. Because people don't live in your press releases, they live in reality. And today it's increasingly difficult.”