Calabria withers within future estimates that follow the thread of a now irreversible demographic crisis. Young people are leaving, births are dropping, towns are emptying. Elderly communities remain, often dispersed in areas where social services arrive late, or not at all. It is in this new dimension that the fragility of a system that is unable to protect those who remain is being structured. Here welfare is not a network, but an irregular pattern, marked by stretch marks that widen over time. The 2026 Istat Report provides a worrying snapshot of a land that continues to live with inequalities.
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