The number of minors in poverty
in Italy has tripled over the last 10 years, Save the Children
said Monday.
In Italy, it said more than 1.26 million kids live in
absolute poverty, according to 2018 figures.
The figure has risen from 375,000 or 3.7% of the underage
population in 2008 to 12.5% last year.
Of this 1.26 million, 563,000 live in the poorer south of
Italy, the Mezzogiorno.
Some 508,000 live in the north and 192,000 in the centre.
The figures emerged in STC's Atlas on At Risk Children.
It was released in 10 cites Monday on the occasion of the
launch of the campaign Let's Light Up The Future.
The campaign is aimed at fighting educational poverty.
The report also said one in seven children in Italy has
dropped out of education.
Child poverty in Italy "is an absolute record among European
countries and saw a sharp worsening in the hardest years of the
economic crisis, between 2011 and 2014, when the rate of
children in poverty went from 5% to 10%, said the report, The
Time Of Children, authored by Giulio Cederna.
photo: Save the Children Italia chief Claudio Tesauro
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