Deputy Premier and Labour and
Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio said Wednesday that the
government and his 5-Star Movement (M5S) had kept its promise
after the launch of the new 'citizenship wage' basic income.
"Today we are keeping a promise," M5S leader Di Maio told RTL
radio.
"The State is finally taking care of the invisible ones, the
people who have been on the outskirts of the country and of the
political debate.
"As of today, five million people can potentially have access
to this measure.
"It's a revolution. I've worked so much on it".
Di Maio added that he plans to take action to resolve the
problem of the so-called 'navigators' who work at job centres to
help people claiming the benefit get back into work.
"I want to hire 6,000 people at the central level and send
them to all of the regions over the next few months to cover the
shortcomings at the job centres while the regions hold
recruitment procedures," Di Maio said.
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