Is called "opportunity income” and has nothing to do with the CBI labeled Cinquestelle. The proposal comes from Bruno Visentini Foundation and aims to support the younger generations.
The idea is to create an action tool, called “A hand for counting”, which allows to acquire goods and services to achieve economic and social independence.
“With an initial endowment of 4,5 billion – writes the Foundation – it would be possible to intervene on a large number of young people, recognizing them a card of 20 thousand euros each”, expendable between 16 and 35 years of age.
Depending on the project, the resources needed to start the opportunity income pilot program “can be made available through a rescheduling of 3,7 billion euros of the numerous and fragmented generational measures (some also co-financed by European funds, such as Youth Guarantee) and the redirection of an additional 800 million euros from other measures that are not directly generational, but with a potential generational impact".
The opportunity income proposal was put forward for the first time by the Visentini Foundation in the report "The generation gap: a pact for youth employment”, presented last December at the Luiss Guido Carli University. Today the idea is relaunched on the occasion of the "World Week of Intergenerational Equity", an opportunity to reflect on a problem that is particularly felt in our country.
Already from the previous report of the Foundation – “The generation gap between conflicts and solidarity”, published in March 2017 – it emerged that the delay accumulated by the new generations compared to the previous ones in achieving economic independence could reach affecting over 12 million people. “If a strategy to combat this gap is not promptly implemented – writes the Foundation – according to the Generational Divide Index (GDI), in 2030 we could see an entire generation unable to mature and to ensure an independent and autonomous life if not when over forty".
Finally, the Foundation also suggests using “the highest pension tax” to fuel “annually a national fund for supplementary pensions for young people, restoring them a long-term economic security that is currently under threat”. A similar idea, though not specifically aimed at young people, was floated on Wednesday by the president of INPS, Pasquale Tridico.
