Dear Director Feltri,
What do you think of the new employment data? It seems that there were no numbers so high since 2007. The Meloni government, stamped by the left as a fascist and to be reduced as soon as possible, is bringing home important and lasting results. But why then do you continue to deny the evidence?
Simona Cammarata
Dear Simona,
The numbers, unlike opinions and ideologies, do not lie. And the data published yesterday confirm what many persist in not wanting to see: Italy is working. Literally.
In July 2025, the employment rate touched 62.3%, the highest level ever recorded since 2007. The number of employed has risen to 23 million 850 thousand people. Above all, permanent employees, i.e. stable jobs, not term contracts, increase. And it increases, and it is a revolutionary fact, also female occupation, which reaches the historical record of 52.3%. All this while the unemployment rate drops to 6.9%, and the youth one drops to 20.8%, one of the lowest values of the last twenty years.
Now, I wonder: where is the apocalyptic narrative that Meloni wanted to the government only for a few months, overwhelmed by inability and populism? Instead this is the fourth longest government of the Italian Republic, and it is paradoxically also what is achieving the most concrete results in the economic and social fields.
For years we have heard that the work is created with subsidies. The 5 stars filled our ears with the citizenship income story, passed off as a size to combat poverty and create employment. In reality he did the opposite: he produced new poor and new unemployed, people who got used to being on the sofa at the expense of those who work.
The principle was as simple as it is absurd: to pay people not to work. In doing so, does not incentive employment, destroy it. Do not create dignity, the poisoning. Do not responsible for citizens, transform them into subjects.
Giorgia Meloni, liked it or not, had the courage to say enough. He dismantled that parasitic and expensive measure and brought the value of work to the center of the national discourse: not only as a right, but as a foundation of human dignity. Italy, I remember it, is a republic founded at work, not on Assistanceism.
That’s why these data are not just cheap. They are cultural. They mark a turnaround that goes beyond the numbers: they speak of a new vision of the country, of a new ambition. And they also speak of the end of hypocrisy: who can work, do it. Who cannot, are really helped. But who can and does not want, that it is not maintained by those who instead snor.
Work is not only the loaf: it is belonging, freedom, growth, it is the pride of contributing to one’s community. This is what a citizen distinguishes from a parasite.
The grillini wanted all the same in misery, Giorgia Meloni is bringing us back to dignity
through fatigue and merit. Yes, thanks, a dirty word for the left. And the results finally see each other.
Who denies it, mind. Or it is in bad faith. Or he is afraid that Italy, without subsidies, is really getting up his head.