Nearly 15% of the population is at risk of poverty; in fact, over 8 and a half million Italians face social hardship and thus live in a severely risky economic situation. The recent growth in the labor market statistic does not erase the areas at very high risk, with about 2 million unemployed and 6.6 million so-called "working poor". Not to mention the more than 5 million people in absolute poverty, bringing the total number of Italians in partial or acute hardship to about 14 million. According to a report by the Unimpresa Study Center, the share of individuals at risk of poverty declined somewhat last year, to 8 million and 440 thousand, a decrease of around 28 thousand units from 2022. According to the Unimpresa Study Center, which processed ISTAT data, socioeconomic hardship affects 14.4% of the population, or 8.5 million out of 59.1 million Italian inhabitants. The observed phenomena mostly affects the jobless and the working poor, i.e. precarious or underpaid workers: in recent years, this basin has nourished the absolute poor. In fact, while the poor have more than quadrupled since 2005, growing from 2.4 million to 5.6 million, the "working poor" have fallen from 10.4 million to 8.5 million in recent years, resulting in a negative "balance" of 2.2 million, which should be seen as a transfer from a vulnerable region to absolute poverty.