Italy’s informal workers fall back on charity
When covid-19 kills their jobs, they cannot expect much state help
UNDER ITALY’S stringent lockdown, Chiara Bosi spent almost three months with her husband and four children in a flat of only 45 square metres. (“More of a hole than an apartment,” she says.) On June 3rd the last restrictions were lifted. Italians were freed to travel abroad and between regions. But Ms Bosi and her family no longer have enough to live on.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “Hitting the poorest hardest”
Europe
June 6th 2020- Covid-19 threatens Europe’s success at fighting inequality
- Spain’s embattled government proposes a new anti-poverty scheme
- Italy’s informal workers fall back on charity
- France’s President Emmanuel Macron mulls a reshuffle
- Germany helps sex workers idled by covid-19
- Slovenia’s prime minister hunts for enemies
- What Turkey got right about the pandemic
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