Istat: poor 7 million Italians, remains remote North-South

10 hours 59 minutes and 'stable at 10.8% the percentage of poor families in Italy, while still marked disparities between North and South of the Country: North 4.9% of families living in "relative poverty "while in the South this percentage jumped to 22.7%. Continue reading this news I said a report published today Istat, stating that families in conditions of "relative poverty" are 2 million 657 thousand: "This is 7 million 810 thousand poor people." The region with the lowest incidence of poverty in Emilia Romagna (4.1%) while the Calabira the area with the highest percentage of poor (27.4%). Istat also notes that poverty grows with decreasing title study and the increase of the family, adding that 7.5% of Italian households are "near poor". "Even among families are not poor groups at risk of poverty is consumption expenditure of households with equivalent of more, but very close, the poverty line, "says Istat. - On other news site www.reuters.it Reuters in Italian. The top news also on www.twitter.com / reuters_italia