Whole of Italy placed on lockdown as 97 more coronavirus patients die

The Local - Italy ^ | 9 March 2020 22:06 CET+01:00

[kearnyirish2]

I understand the workers enjoying, but also see the problems it presents. I don’t understand why the birthrate is so low if they have those protections at their jobs; it is a big reason people here in the US don’t breed.

[Labyrinthos]

And many of them live in high density, hygienically challenged ghettos.

[DoughtyOne]

I would imagine at a certain level of taxation and debt, it becomes
daunting to think of having kids.

DemoⁿⁱcRats have no idea how much they are undermining the future of
our nation.

[kearnyirish2]

The insecurity of future income is a big reason; NJ’s high taxes weren’t an issue until after the “good jobs” left and people had high taxes with McJob paychecks.

The Democrat base sees this nation as not worth keeping or saving.

[DoughtyOne]

I agree that they have done their level best to destroy the youth’s spirit.

[kearnyirish2]

I have working teens, and it is depressing that they earn similar wages to what I earned at the same point in my life decades ago. Not adjusted for inflation, just the same wages; prices have risen considerably over the intervening years.

[Fred Nerks]

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/this-is-china-not-italy_b_11866964

By the end of the nineties, the textile industry crisis hit Prato severely and companies started closing down. Yet, the Chinese community kept growing. They started connecting to mainland China, offering the prized Made in Italy label. They diversified production by launching into garmenting and accessories. They enlarged the boundaries by reaching the frontiers of Florence (where the above mentioned protest took place) and entering the lucrative business of leather goods. Of course, most of them kept working illegally. The Chinese triad saw a business opportunity in this for human trafficking and launched a scheme whereby they sponsored workers to travel to Italy and work with no pay: a form of modern slavery. Participants were allowed to leave the system after working a certain number of years to launch their own activity. Many people were incentivized to come from China and work in awful conditions and soon enough, this created a small Chinese town in Italy. Today in Prato, you have 50,000 Chinese people out of which no more than 16,000 are registered (Guardian, July 2016.) Officially, the others don’t exist!