Calabria is a land exposed to social bad weather with a poverty risk of 32.8% (over double the national average), the worst scenario in Italy, according to Eurostat tables. Discomforts which inevitably grow if we also consider the combined exposure between the risk of poverty and social exclusion, the Istat figure stands at 45.3%. In Calabria, 16.4% of people are employed with low work intensity, a figure that illustrates a job that is increasingly less capable of guaranteeing safety. Added to this is a 14.8% of the population in conditions of serious material and social deprivation. A picture also confirmed by Caritas in its latest report in which it reconstructs the new biographies of the poor that have emerged in the last year. Throughout the region, 5,259 people were assisted in diocesan and parish centers, with an average of 116.9 per centre, significantly higher than both the national figure (80.3) and that of the macro-area of the South (72.8).
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