The gap between rich and poor is
growing, and the government is planning a nationwide plan to
combat that trend, Labour Minister Giuliano Poletti told the
House social affairs committee Thursday.
"There is a will to launch a national anti-poverty
campaign," Poletti told MPs.
"An ever-widening sector of citizens is being impoverished,
and a gap has opened between different sectors of Italian
society," the minister said.
Incoming data has shown "the situation has significantly
worsened," Poletti said.
The plan would include reducing bureaucracy that presently
stands in the way of the jobless getting hired, and building
what he called "tools for permanent action" beginning in Italy's
poverty-ridden southern regions.
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