Il sistema pensionistico italiano presenta gravi lacune e errori, in particolare nei coefficienti di trasformazione che determinano l'entità delle pensioni. Questi coefficienti sono aggiornati ogni due anni, ma un errore occasionale, legato all'effetto della pandemia sulla tavola di sopravvivenza, ha portato a un aumento ingiustificato dei coefficienti per il biennio 2023-2024, con una sottovalutazione dell'aspettativa di vita e una sopravvalutazione dei coefficienti, penalizzando l'equità tra pensioni. L'errore è stato dovuto all'adozione dei tassi di sopravvivenza del 2021, influenzati dalla pandemia, che ha ridotto artificialmente le aspettative di vita. Per evitare che simili distorsioni si ripetano, la proposta è di basare i coefficienti su aspettative di vita mediate su un periodo pluriennale, come fa il sistema svedese.

https://lavoce.info/archives/107031/cosi-la-pandemia-ha-premiato-alcuni-pensionati/

The exact number of casualties from the Iraq War was never established, but it’s in the hundreds of thousands and, by one account, roughly a million. A recent study of post-9/11 wars, including Bush’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, estimates total deaths at around 4.5 million.

Some Democratic insiders didn’t love the Cheney play nor the ecumenical strategy. As Rolling Stone reports, a handful of them “begged” the Harris campaign not to do it, lest they alienate their base and fail to recruit converts from the other side. They were correct.

It’s something worse than ironic that the strategy not only contributed to the Harris’s loss but underscored the Democrat’s embrace of figures and policies that exacerbated and entrenched the economic woes of the working class, fueling anti-elite, anti-system backlash. In doing so, they helped cement the conditions for Trump’s ongoing success.

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/biden-trump-democrats-dealignment-bush/

Joe Biden was not picked in 2020 because he was the only person that could beat Trump. He was picked because he was the only person that could beat Bernie Sanders, rightly or wrongly. … That conclusion was made, okay? “Oh my gosh, coming out of Nevada, Bernie Sanders is going to be the nominee!” And people, just like they are now, said, “Ahhh, I don’t think that’s going to work,” so they were looking for an alternative.

Smith had made a similar point to CNN two days earlier. “The president did not run a great primary campaign,” he told the network. “Bernie Sanders looked like the presumptive nominee, and this exact same group of people the president is now deriding as elites . . . decided they didn’t want Bernie Sanders to be the nominee.”

Former congressman Harold Ford, former chair of the Democratic Leadership Council and banking executive, made a similar point on Fox. “I was an elite that supported you in 2020,” Ford said. “And said that we should do everything we possibly could do to advantage you against Bernie Sanders, because I thought Bernie Sanders’ politics were detrimental to the party and to the country.”

https://jacobin.com/2024/07/joe-biden-bernie-sanders-democrats-2020-primary-trump/

Il report “State Trafficking” (“Tratta di Stato”) denuncia che questi “crimini di Stato” si sono sviluppati anche come conseguenza del supporto di Italia e Unione europea ai due Paesi nordafricani.

“Finanziando e collaborando con regimi come quelli libici e tunisini, l’Europa ha scelto di esternalizzare i propri confini, chiudendo un occhio su pratiche orribili come la vendita di esseri umani, che non possono più essere ignorate”, ha dichiarato Ilaria Salis, europarlamentare del gruppo della Sinistra (The Left), durante la conferenza stampa presso il Parlamento europeo a Bruxelles lo scorso 29 gennaio, in occasione della pubblicazione del rapporto.

https://altreconomia.it/un-nuovo-report-documenta-le-espulsioni-e-la-vendita-dei-migranti-dalla-tunisia-alla-libia/

The article compares Italy's labor market across three key years: 2007 (pre-crisis), 2014 (post-crisis), and 2024. While Italy's labor market has shown positive trends, particularly in employment rates, challenges persist. Real wages remain stagnant, and the number of unfilled jobs is increasing. The article also highlights issues such as the slow response in wage growth compared to inflation and the reliance on labor rather than productivity gains.

https://lavoce.info/archives/106820/check-up-del-mercato-del-lavoro-italiano-tre-anni-a-confronto/

In conclusione, l’Ires premiale è solo un bonus una tantum, circoscritto, limitato e poco efficace per la patrimonializzazione delle imprese. L’opposto dell’Aiuto alla crescita economica (Ace) abolita dal 2024. Quest’ultima, infatti: a) riguardava l’universo delle imprese; b) era un elemento strutturale del sistema e garantiva un risparmio di imposta a regime di ben 2,7 miliardi di euro all’anno; c) stava contribuendo positivamente al rafforzamento patrimoniale delle società.

https://lavoce.info/archives/106833/i-capricci-dellires-premiale/

The bottom line is that, for 20 years or more, including the months prior to the election, voter perception was more reflective of reality than the incumbent statistics. Our research revealed that the data collected by the various agencies is largely accurate. Moreover, the people staffing those agencies are talented and well-intentioned. But the filters used to compute the headline statistics are flawed. As a result, they paint a much rosier picture of reality than bears out on the ground.

Take, as a particularly egregious example, what is perhaps the most widely reported economic indicator: unemployment. Known to experts as the U-3, the number misleads in several ways. First, it counts as employed the millions of people who are unwillingly under-employed — that is, people who, for example, work only a few hours each week while searching for a full-time job. Second, it does not take into account many Americans who have been so discouraged that they are no longer trying to get a job. Finally, the prevailing statistic does not account for the meagerness of any individual’s income. Thus you could be homeless on the streets, making an intermittent income and functionally incapable of keeping your family fed, and the government would still count you as “employed.”

I don’t believe those who went into this past election taking pride in the unemployment numbers understood that the near-record low unemployment figures — the figure was a mere 4.2 percent in November — counted homeless people doing occasional work as “employed.” But the implications are powerful. If you filter the statistic to include as unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a poverty wage (roughly $25,000), the percentage is actually 23.7 percent. In other words, nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today — hardly something to celebrate.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-tricked-strong-economy-00203464