forty year olds

Of Massimo Caruso

Source: The Lighthouse on the World
Life begins at forty. Those of my generation often heard this as children, perhaps from the forty-year-olds of the time who, already at that age, they smelled of retirement. The same pension as my generation, a generation of precarious workers for life, he will see very late or perhaps he will never see.
We don't want to rant, but data in hand, the age group come on 35 ai 49 years has in fact found itself entangled in a dramatic situation from which it will be difficult to escape without facing the consequences and related expenses. The deep wounds caused by this terrible social butchery already have a cost and the bill that will arrive in the years to come will be even saltier.
The costs that are already faced are economic, social and health. The costs that will be faced will be predominantly political, because the same policy that created this huge trap and has still not managed to defuse it, will have to make sure to put together the pieces of a generation shattered already from its first foray into the world of work. Precisely, a generation of precarious workers.
The numbers are merciless: in Italy, since December 2016 in December 2017, employed people aged between 35 e 49 years have waned 2,1%, for a total of approximately 204 thousand people. The worst result among the various age groups, if you consider that, in the same period, the band between 25 e 34 years, recorded losses for the 0,7%. Read More