The government purchasing paper is the latest step in a strategy that isn’t working

A new timed bonus against poverty is born, the “Dedicated to you” card, in Italy that just can’t understand that a real breakthrough is needed. The doubling of social spending for those who are worse off and at the same time the doubling of the poor, that is what happened in the last decade, can in fact be explained only by the inability of politics to redirect significant flows of its maxi public spending at the service of a few but essential priorities . More spending on training young people and support for parental care, a drastic change in active employment policies, full recruitment and sharing of the supply capabilities of the third sector. The Istat 2023 report says: “In 2022 the share of the population at risk of poverty and social exclusion was 24.4 percent (it was 25.2 percent in 2021). Economic growth, the increase in employment and family incomes have favored a marked reduction in the population in conditions of severe material and social deprivation (4.5 per cent compared to 5.9 per cent in 2021), while the population at risk of poverty (20.1 percent)”. The recovery of the economy and employment has mitigated them, but the figures remain frightening. Other than “abolished poverty”, as they said for the Citizenship Income.