UN: Covid-19 pushes 100 million more workers into poverty vaticannews.va

The disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic have forced over 100 million more workers into poverty worldwide, a UN labour agency said in a report released on Wednesday.

Relative to 2019, an estimated 108 million more workers around the world were categorized as moderately or extremely poor, indicating that their families survive on less than $3.20 per person per day, according to the International Labour Organization’s annual World Employment and Social Outlook report

This significant increase in poverty is due to lost working hours amid lockdown measures implemented during the pandemic, outright job losses, and a decline in access to good quality jobs…

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