Meloni hails abolition of basic income

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 31 - Premier Giorgia Meloni on Friday hailed her government's abolition of the 'citizenship wage' basic income for poor families and job seekers saying replacement mechanisms it had set up were already bearing fruit.
    "Where is the slump in the economy and employment?," she asked a Friuli regional election audience via videolink to Udine. "We have 100,000 new jobs at the beginning of the year and 'I'll tell you more: our choice to abolish the citizenship income for those who want to work is also bearing fruit: many people are working and will grow much more than if they had stayed at home to receive the income: I uphold this choice". (ANSA).