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Italy launches universal income scheme
By EUOBSERVER
Italy is to start paying its estimated 5 million people who live below the poverty line at least €780 each a month in a "citizens' income" scheme that will cost its wobbly state budget €7.1bn in its first year. "The state is finally dealing with the invisible people, those who have been on the margins of this country and the political debate," Italian deputy prime minister Luigi di Maio said.






