Protests erupt in Italy over cuts to poverty relief scheme

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Protests erupt in Italy over cuts to poverty relief scheme

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World News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year ago

Discontent mounted on Monday in Italy over cuts to a poverty relief scheme by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's rightist government that will affect hundreds of thousands of people.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230801205723/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/protests-erupt-italy-over-cuts-poverty-relief-scheme-2023-07-31/

“I’m 58 and I cannot enter the labour market because they always tell me that at my age, 58, I am not (employable), just a few odd jobs, always off the books, underpaid.”

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