Navigator without route: in 500 they lose their place. “The subsidy has failed” – Economy

Rome, 6 July 2022 – Citizenship income continues to be defended by the sword, but the majority of insiders consider it a failure. How are things? “As far as help in finding a job for income recipients is concerned, calling it a failure is the most honest thing that can be said – warns Maurizio Del Conte (pictured), full professor of labor law at Bocconi and director of the creation of Anpal in the original version – If we consider it, however, for the part dedicated to income support, there is no doubt that the more than twenty billion euros disbursed in the first three years of application have had a significant contrasting effect to absolute poverty. All the more during the pandemic. Even if the mechanism for assigning the economic benefit has shown serious distortions both as regards the audience of recipients and the size of the allowance, penalizing especially large families “. Why has it failed as an accompaniment to work? “Because instead of starting with the reconstruction of our very weak network of employment services, the legislator thought that we could forge ahead by clogging up the run-down 554 employment centers scattered across the Peninsula with hundreds of thousands of income earners, with the task of finding him a job. As expected, the operation not only failed for the beneficiaries of the subsidy, but sent employment centers further suffering, even in those few realities (yes, there are) that they were distinguished by the quality of the services rendered to the unemployed. In short, given the premises, it was a widely announced failure “. Did the navigator operation also end badly? What are they good for? “The navigators, in the sense of the people who were recruited with this new name, were the first victims …