Absolute poverty reached its highest rate in Coronavirus-ravaged Italy since 2005, with over 335,000 more families and a million more people being classified as poor in 2020 than in the previous year, official data showed Thursday. The number of families living in absolute poverty went up by 335,000 in 2020 to over 2 million families, the country’s national statistics bureau (Istat) said in a report.
