Between citizenship income and "quota 100" we spend 64% more than the anti-crisis measure
Between income, citizenship pension and "quota 100", in 2020 an expenditure of 12,3 billion is expected, 64 percent more than the economic crisis measure announced in recent days by the Government which will be equal to 7,5 billion . Important sums that led the coordinator of the CGIA Study Office, Paolo Zabeo, to this reflection:
“To give a subsidy even to those who are not very interested in finding a job or want to retire early, the government has foreseen an expenditure of 12,3 billion euros for the current year. To face an economic crisis which, on the other hand, risks causing the country to slide into a very heavy recession, it promises 7,5 billion. In short, we do not pay any expense for assistance, but to face a crisis that promises to be among the most dramatic in the last 75 years, we will provide a measure that, although it has doubled within a few days, still remains insufficient ".
From the CGIA, they make it known that the announcement made yesterday by the government to bring the decree up to 7,5 billion to counter the negative effects of the coronavirus must be welcomed positively, even if the interventions that will be put in place are aimed only at containing the crisis, while nothing has been foreseen to "attack" the economic recession that is just around the corner. CGIA Secretary Renato Mason says:
"If on the one hand the manufacturing world is clamoring for an important expansionary move capable of relaunching consumption and internal demand, on the other hand the Government only tackles the crisis with containment measures that are certainly important, even if they should be integrated with an important medium-long term investment plan. For this reason we invite the Executive to unlock the large public works already financed or stopped by excessive bureaucracy, borrowing the success that the Genoa method is having. Without forgetting that it is necessary that our Public Administration returns to pay the commercial debts accrued with its suppliers ".
In addition, from the CGIA, they report that active labor market policies will cost € 17 billion for the current year. Resources that are largely managed by the Regions.
Given the situation that is looming shortly here, the craftsmen of Mestrini believe that it would perhaps be appropriate to divert a part of these resources towards interventions that are capable of creating new jobs - through the construction of public works - rather than supporting initiatives aimed at find employment for those who do not have it, who with the coming crisis will hardly find a job.
EXAMPLES OF MEASURES RELATED TO ACTIVE POLICIES
- Basic orientation, analysis of skills in relation to the local job market, profiling and definition of job search actions that must be performed by the person;
- Help in finding a job, including through group sessions;
- Specialized and individualized orientation, to be provided through the balance of skills and the analysis of any training needs, work experience or other active labor policy measures, in relation to the demand for work expressed at territorial, national and European level;
- Individualized orientation to self-employment;
- Accompaniment to work, also with the use of the relocation allowance;
- Training for professional qualification and retraining, self-employment and immediate job placement;
- Promotion of work experience to increase skills, including through internships;
- Self-employment incentives and tutoring for the phases following the start-up of the company;
- Territorial mobility incentives;
- Tools to reconcile work with care obligations towards minors or dependent persons.
The need to return to investing heavily in infrastructure is a priority recognized by all. According to data from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT), for example, the competitiveness deficit of our logistics-infrastructure system costs us € 40 billion a year (Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, “Connecting Italy. Strategies for transport and logistics infrastructures ", year 2017).
According to SACE (Cassa Depositi e Prestiti group), this gap with other European competitors makes us lose 70 billion euros in exports every year (Sace Simest cdp group, "Export Report 2018. Keep calm & Made in Italy", p . 102, year 2018). Obviously, amounts that cannot be added together, but which give the dimension of the backwardness of the large transport and logistics networks present in our country
The CGIA, however, wishes to clarify that in addition to the construction of the large tangible and intangible infrastructures, we also need to perform many "minor" interventions which are, however, indispensable for the safety of many areas of the country.
In fact, please note that:
- 88 percent of the nearly 8 Italian municipalities have at least one area classified as having a high hydrogeological risk (Source: Ispra - Higher Institute for Environmental Protection and Research);
- about 40 percent of public residential housing is located in areas with high seismic risk (Source: Isi - Italian seismic engineering);
- out of 6.000 works monitored by the provinces (tunnels, bridges, viaducts, etc.) almost 2.000 need urgent intervention (Source: Unione Italiana Province);
- about 38 percent of the water transported by the public water system is lost on the street due to the high level of deterioration of the network (Source: Istat).