“We need to invest in public day-care centres, kindergartens, all-day schools. Women should not have to shoulder the whole burden of care”, says Linda Laura Sabbadini, president of the Engagement Group Women 20, “March 8th is an opportunity to reaffirm the strength of women, since they keep the country on its feet”
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The budget contains emergency measures, but also important innovations, such as the new income indemnity fund for the self-employed and the extension of expansion contracts
In his book Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events , the economist and Nobel laureate Robert Shiller reveals the close connection between stories, individual behaviours and the economy
A StarNet report provides a snapshot of the situation: more than 2 million Italian youngsters are not in employment, education or training and over the past six years, the policies to help them have only gone halfway to solving the problem
In Italy, it is possible to convert’ the years spent studying at university into pension contributions and a potentially early retirement. However, it can be quite costly here’s how it works
The candidate for the US democratic party primaries has made a proposal for the institution of a basic income of one thousand euros for each citizen, to bolster the economy and abolish inequality. The concept is not new and has already been tested in various parts of the world (including Italy). The results are, however, contradictory. Here is why.
In addition to the Italian citizenship income and the strengthening of the Job Centers, there are other projects being developed Europe. And many companies have also entered the sector
Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and the creator of microcredit, reminds young people that human beings are creative, encouraging them not to work for somebody else
Aspiring democratic candidate for the presidential elections in 2020, Yang foresees a dystopian future for Americans in connection with growth in automation. But he does not just play on fear: he also proposes solutions
A conversation with the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics: We have to rewrite market rules. Today, the system guarantees the accumulation of financial wealth, and discourages investment in the real economy
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.