There is a sense of loneliness that generates despondency among the people of this land who continue to live crushed under the weight of the differences that generate two Italys. Geographical and social gaps in schools, healthcare, transport and essential services in general. Calabria is a land that is emptying, flaking and corroded by the amnesia of politics, where emergency is daily bread and normality is a very rare commodity. And inequalities with the North are growing, drawing scenarios described by the thousand voices of economic and social reports which are like the gray and murky light of twilight that quickly fades into night. Merciless diagrams that place this land in the quadrant most at risk where the crying of the last risks becoming mass lament. There is not a single indicator that is capable of reassuring the increasingly suffering humanity that lives in this province. First the pandemic, then the war economy raised the walls and impregnated the river of poverty. And, now, the numbers filling that karst river that flows through the region’s cavities continue to generate pressure. The latest data from the INPS Regional Social Report 2024 and those from Eurostat paint the same truth from different perspectives. Calabria is not only a land poor in income, but also in direction.
The Unical economist, Francesco Aiello, was among the few to read them with the lucidity of an analyst and the frankness of a doctor with the patient faced with the discovery of a serious pathology. Well, out of around 500 thousand employees registered by INPS, just 6.3% work in manufacturing, while over a third are absorbed by the public sector.
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