FILE PHOTO: Italian Minister of Labor and Industry Luigi Di Maio speaks at the Italian Business Association Confcommercio meeting in Rome, Italy, June 7, 2018. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo By Gavin ...

HERCULANEUM, Italy (Reuters) - Roberto Biondi's 89-year-old mother has Alzheimer's, is housebound and no longer recognises her son. She is also the family's main breadwinner. Her state pension of 800 ...

Italy's economy is expected to shrink by at least 8 percent this year, with no way for the vital tourism sector to revive in the foreseeable future. A government rescue package gives some relief.

ROME (Reuters) - The number of people living in poverty in Italy hit its highest level for a decade in 2015, data showed on Thursday, in a report that could hurt centre-left Prime Minister Matteo ...

Rimini, Italy is the site each fall of a conference that is a kind of Clinton Global Initiative for Europe, without Bill Clinton — a meeting that tackles a single urgent topic over four days. This ...

The number of Italians living in poverty stagnated after rising for three years ahead of the introduction of a new income-support tool. Slightly more than 5 million Italians lived in absolute poverty ...

NAPLES, CAMPANIA, ITALY - 2020/04/22: Volunteers delivers a package of basic necessities, with primary products for the poor people in the popular neighborhoods of Naples city. Organized by the ...

Sometimes there seems to be a world of significance packed into a single moment, or a single sentence. At Pio Manzu’s four-day conference about global poverty, the speakers’ roster is packed with ...

4.9 percent to 6.2 percent in the richer north and from 23.3 percent to 26.2 percent in the poorer south. The report painted a grim picture of the impact of the country’s worst postwar recession, with ...

ROME (Reuters) - The number of people living in poverty in Italy climbed to its highest level for more than a decade in 2017, data showed on Tuesday, prompting a promise of urgent action from the ...