Families who don't make it to the end of the month (or even the third week), young people forced to stay with mum and dad because they are precarious and/or underpaid, high living costs in big cities and in general in the North compared to the South, higher oil and consequence of gasoline, and consequently of foodstuffs. Not to mention inflation and taxes. The truth, according to Eurispes calculations, is only one (with the "o" closed): an Italian family of four needs at least 30.276 euros a year to live (or survive?), or 2.523 euros a month.
Only with these figures, according to the report "Italy in black" compiled by Eurispes and the San Pio V Institute in Rome, a typical family nucleus, made up of two adults and two children, can lead "an almost spartan but dignified existence, not letting the children lack for anything".
Going into detail, the first item taken into consideration is obviously that for food expenditure, which in the North-West regions it absorbs almost a thousand euros on the entire budget: on average on the national territory it is around 825 euros per month, just lower than the medical-health expenses (950) and the house (890), while to clothe the wife and children even 240 euros every 30 days can be enough.
They consider that the average salary, including graduates, is less than 1.400 euros a month, and that in some families only one adult out of two still works, how are the Italians doing? Making a virtue of necessity: according to Eurispes 35% of employees, over a third of the total, "is now forced to work double duty to make ends meet and make ends meet." With a quick calculation, there are therefore at least 6 million "double workers", who work illegally for about a thousand hours a year, they produce an undeclared income of almost 91 billion euros.
Undeclared work alone represents 53% of the unobserved economy of the boot, which in 2010 generated a total of 529 billion euros including tax evasion (which, however, accounts for only 29,5%). Estimates for 2011 speak of a volume of undeclared work which will reach 540 billion, equal 35% of the official GDP. “Our undeclared economy is equivalent to the GDP of Finland (177 billion), Portugal (162 billion), Romania (117 billion) and Hungary (102) combined”, explains Eurispes.
But returning to Italian families: one worker out of three supplements with another job, and the others? They live in ever more evident difficulties. In fact, only a third of families manage to easily make ends meet, while at least 500 families find it difficult to honor their home loans and the phenomenon of consumer credit is increasing (more than 100% between 2002 and 2011). But above all, the so-called poverty 'in suits and ties' is growing, that is, that of unsuspected workers forced to take advantage of canteens and dormitories for the poor.
