May 1st, Sergio Mattarella on insufficient wages: “Many families no longer hold the increase in the cost of living”

“Families no longer hold the cost of living.” Once again he is the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarellato return a clear photograph of the reality of our country, Italy. He did it on the occasion of his visit to the BSP Pharmaceuticals of Latina, in view of the celebrations for the May 1stWork festival, as well as an important day to return to reiterate the importance of working safely and with dignity. “Salary issues are fundamental for the reduction of inequalities, for a fair enjoyment of the fruits offered by innovation, by progress. Many families do not hold up the increase in the cost of living. Insufficient wages are a great question for Italy “underlined the President of the Republic, with words that reiterated the increasingly concrete risk of becoming a country where to work is no longer enough. Where social cohesion wears out together with the salaries and the distance between those who can afford and those who do not become deeper.

“New risks overlook, deriving from the prospects of wide use of duties, an ancient form of strength tests, which can hinder the right to access to treatments, to health, for every people in the world, especially the poorest and most fragile. Perspectives that also produce negative effects on the global economy. Effects that our country can also consult, “continued Mattarella, also remembering the increasing number of young people who specialize in Italy and then migrate abroad to work, “Impregate our human capital”.

Finally, the reference to Article 36 of the Constitution and the attack on the corporal: «The treatment of migrants, with wages that, according to the OIL (International Organization of Labor, editor’s note), are lower than a quarter compared to those of compatriots, if not with scandalous phenomena such as the corporalmust be firmly contrasted. The character of our society is to the extent of the dignity of the person who works, also to respect article 36 of our Constitution. The principle of humanity as a cornerstone of our daily action is never less than, as Pope Francis reminded us in the Easter blessing, his last message ».

The words of Sergio Mattarella also joined those of the international organization Save the Children who recalled, with the data, the vastness of the plague of poverty in Italy and the impact it has on parents and minors. In our country land families in absolute poverty in which there are almost 748 thousand minors (12.4%), among the most affected those with 3 or more minor children (18.8%) and monogenial ones (14.8%). “It is urgent to activate targeted policies as soon as possible to counter the risk of poverty and social exclusion that affects girls, boys and teenagers,” said Daniela Fatarella, general director of Save the Children. “These measures must include adequate support for families and a structural strengthening of the educational, school and extracurricular offer, in order to prevent material poverty from being transformed into educational poverty.compromising the opportunities for growth and development of minors “.