Citizenship income, Patuanelli: “It should be strengthened, inexplicable to question it”

Citizenship income “is a measure that has worked and needs to be refinanced, strengthened and expanded as much as possible”. This was stated by the Minister of Agricultural Policies Stefano Patuanelli on the sidelines of Vinitaly for whom “questioning this tool is inexplicable and unmotivated”. Read also “We have refinanced the measure for 2021 with the tax decree because – he explains – unfortunately more and more people have had the need to resort to it also for the pandemic, it is about 1 million and 400 thousand families with an average value of 546 euros per core; questioning the instrument is out of time “reiterates the minister for whom” if certain social tensions did not develop in this country it was thanks to this profound instrument of income support “.” Then we are very willing to think and improve the part on active labor policies to ensure that about a third of the audience that is the part of the employable can more easily find a job “, he explains.