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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Beppe Sica, the pizzaiolo (pizza maker) of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, prepares a pizza,  in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
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The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    SMAS_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_DS...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Customers are seen here in the terrace of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    SMAS_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_DS...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Customers are seen here in the terrace of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    SMAS_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_DS...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019:  Children are seen here in the terrace of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    SMAS_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_DS...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: A girl looks at chef Gaetano Bianchini working in the kitchen of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Pasta with potatoes and provola cheese is seen here at the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Fried panzarotti, crocchè and vegatable are seen here at the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Fried panzarotti, crocchè and vegatable are seen here at the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Fried calamari are seen here at the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Francesco Bianchini, Mario Bianchini's son, is seen here managing orders at the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019:  Mussels are seen here at the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Spaghetti with clams are seen here at the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Beppe Sica, the pizzaiolo (pizza maker) of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, prepares a pizza,  in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Chef Gaetano Bianchini (left), Mario Bianchini's son, is seen here stepping out of the kitchen of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Chef Gaetano Bianchini (left), Mario Bianchini's son, is seen here stepping out of the kitchen of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Chef Gaetano Bianchini, Mario Bianchini's son, cooks in the kitchen of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Beppe Sica, the pizzaiolo (pizza maker) of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, jokes around with a local resident in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
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The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Customers are seen here at the entrance of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Francesco Bianchini, Mario Bianchini's son, takes orders from customers at the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: A view of Mount Vesuvius is seen here from the terrace of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Francesco Bianchini, Mario Bianchini's son, is seen here at the entrance of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Paccheri  with Baccalà (salted codffish) are seen here at the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 13 JULY 2019: Chef Gaetano Bianchini, Mario Bianchini's son, cooks in the kitchen of the Osteria Totò Eduardo e Pasta e Fagioli, a restaurant in Naples, Italy, on July 13th 2019.<br />
<br />
The name of the Osteria is dedicated to the two masters of Neapolitan theatre and cinema: Totò (Antonio de Curtis) and Eduardo de Filippo. The idea came from Mario Bianchini, an aficionado of Neapolitan culture who wanted to pay tribute to his wife Rosaria de Curtis, a distant relative of Totò, the most famous actor in the history of Naples.<br />
The osteria was founded in the 1970s by Mario Bianchini who wanted to base its menu on traditional Neapolitan dishes. Mr Bianchini learned the art of cooking from his mother Anna.
    CIPG_20190713_CULBACK-TotoEduardo_M3...jpg
  • HAL FAR, MALTA - JUNE 21: Dawit (right), a 35 years immigrant old from Ethiopia, Michael (center), a 25 years old immigrant from Eritrea, and Mubarak, a 25 years old immigrant from Eritrea, are here by the Swiss Red Cross tentsinside the hangarat the Hangar Open Center in Hal Far (which translates as "Rat's Town") on June 21, 2011. Dawit was a language teacher in Tripoli and lived well, with no problems until the crisis started. He arrived in Malta on March 29th on a boat with 80 people after crossing the sea for 34 hours. "Once the UN resolution against Libya was signed there were State TV announcements (also in English) that announced that migrants were free to leave the country. It wasn't possible before that date because of the agreement between Italy and Libya". No police or army forced them to leave, but there was some kind of general pressure to get sub-saharan migrants out of the country and to have them leave by boat. In Dawit's case, his landlord told him he had one day to leave his apartment. "Buses in Tripoli were collecting people and deporting them", Dawit says. They couldn’t go towards Tunisia or Egypt, only towards to the coast. Other sub-Saharans were able to flee to Tunisia, but there aren't any Ethiopian embassies in Libya, so Ethiopians in Libya don't have any documents that allowed them to stay in the country or officially cross borders. Once they arrived at the port they didn't pay any fixed fee but all they had was confiscated, including food and water. A boat was given to them and they left. "People had bought food and water for their journey, but everything was confisfacted. I was lucky, because it took me only 34 hours to arrive in Malta, but it took these guys (indicating Michael, 25, and Mubarak – not in this picture -, 23, both from Ethiopia, standing next to him) 10 days to arrive with", Dawit says. Michael, 25, stands next to Dawit. He was on a boat with his wife and two twins and arrived in Malta on April 12. It took him 10 days t
    CIPG_20110621_NYT_MALTA__MG_0921.jpg
  • HAL FAR, MALTA - JUNE 21: Dawit (right), a 35 years immigrant old from Ethiopia, and Michael (center), a 25 years old immigrant from Eritrea, are here by the Swiss Red Cross tents inside the Hangar Open Center in Hal Far (which translates as "Rat's Town") on June 21, 2011. <br />
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Dawit was a language teacher in Tripoli and lived well, with no problems until the crisis started. He arrived in Malta on March 29th on a boat with 80 people after crossing the sea for 34 hours. "Once the UN resolution against Libya was signed there were State TV announcements (also in English) that announced that migrants were free to leave the country. It wasn't possible before that date because of the agreement between Italy and Libya". No police or army forced them to leave, but there was some kind of general pressure to get sub-saharan migrants out of the country and to have them leave by boat. In Dawit's case, his landlord told him he had one day to leave his apartment. "Buses in Tripoli were collecting people and deporting them", Dawit says. They couldn’t go towards Tunisia or Egypt, only towards to the coast. Other sub-Saharans were able to flee to Tunisia, but there aren't any Ethiopian embassies in Libya, so Ethiopians in Libya don't have any documents that allowed them to stay in the country or officially cross borders. Once they arrived at the port they didn't pay any fixed fee but all they had was confiscated, including food and water. A boat was given to them and they left. "People had bought food and water for their journey, but everything was confisfacted. I was lucky, because it took me only 34 hours to arrive in Malta, but it took these guys (indicating Michael, 25, and Mubarak, 23, both from Ethiopia, standing next to him - not in this picture) 10 days to arrive", Dawit says.Dawit continues: "Life was good in Libya. We were all supporting our families. If wanted we could have left before, when everybody was leaving Libya (referring to 2008). But the price to reach Europe was
    CIPG_20110621_NYT_MALTA__MG_1211.jpg
  • HAL FAR, MALTA - JUNE 21: Dawit (right), a 35 years immigrant old from Ethiopia, and Michael (center), a 25 years old immigrant from Eritrea, are here by the Swiss Red Cross tents inside the Hangar Open Center in Hal Far (which translates as "Rat's Town") on June 21, 2011. <br />
<br />
Dawit was a language teacher in Tripoli and lived well, with no problems until the crisis started. He arrived in Malta on March 29th on a boat with 80 people after crossing the sea for 34 hours. "Once the UN resolution against Libya was signed there were State TV announcements (also in English) that announced that migrants were free to leave the country. It wasn't possible before that date because of the agreement between Italy and Libya". No police or army forced them to leave, but there was some kind of general pressure to get sub-saharan migrants out of the country and to have them leave by boat. In Dawit's case, his landlord told him he had one day to leave his apartment. "Buses in Tripoli were collecting people and deporting them", Dawit says. They couldn’t go towards Tunisia or Egypt, only towards to the coast. Other sub-Saharans were able to flee to Tunisia, but there aren't any Ethiopian embassies in Libya, so Ethiopians in Libya don't have any documents that allowed them to stay in the country or officially cross borders. Once they arrived at the port they didn't pay any fixed fee but all they had was confiscated, including food and water. A boat was given to them and they left. "People had bought food and water for their journey, but everything was confisfacted. I was lucky, because it took me only 34 hours to arrive in Malta, but it took these guys (indicating Michael, 25, and Mubarak, 23, both from Ethiopia, standing next to him - not in this picture) 10 days to arrive", Dawit says.Dawit continues: "Life was good in Libya. We were all supporting our families. If wanted we could have left before, when everybody was leaving Libya (referring to 2008). But the price to reach Europe was
    CIPG_20110621_NYT_MALTA__MG_1202.jpg
  • HAL FAR, MALTA - JUNE 21: Dawit (right), a 35 years immigrant old from Ethiopia, and Michael (center), a 25 years old immigrant from Eritrea, are here by the Swiss Red Cross tents inside the Hangar Open Center in Hal Far (which translates as "Rat's Town") on June 21, 2011. <br />
<br />
Dawit was a language teacher in Tripoli and lived well, with no problems until the crisis started. He arrived in Malta on March 29th on a boat with 80 people after crossing the sea for 34 hours. "Once the UN resolution against Libya was signed there were State TV announcements (also in English) that announced that migrants were free to leave the country. It wasn't possible before that date because of the agreement between Italy and Libya". No police or army forced them to leave, but there was some kind of general pressure to get sub-saharan migrants out of the country and to have them leave by boat. In Dawit's case, his landlord told him he had one day to leave his apartment. "Buses in Tripoli were collecting people and deporting them", Dawit says. They couldn’t go towards Tunisia or Egypt, only towards to the coast. Other sub-Saharans were able to flee to Tunisia, but there aren't any Ethiopian embassies in Libya, so Ethiopians in Libya don't have any documents that allowed them to stay in the country or officially cross borders. Once they arrived at the port they didn't pay any fixed fee but all they had was confiscated, including food and water. A boat was given to them and they left. "People had bought food and water for their journey, but everything was confisfacted. I was lucky, because it took me only 34 hours to arrive in Malta, but it took these guys (indicating Michael, 25, and Mubarak, 23, both from Ethiopia, standing next to him - not in this picture) 10 days to arrive", Dawit says.Dawit continues: "Life was good in Libya. We were all supporting our families. If wanted we could have left before, when everybody was leaving Libya (referring to 2008). But the price to reach Europe was
    CIPG_20110621_NYT_MALTA__MG_1194.jpg
  • HAL FAR, MALTA - JUNE 21: Dawit (right), a 35 years immigrant old from Ethiopia, and Michael (center), a 25 years old immigrant from Eritrea, are here by the Swiss Red Cross tents inside the Hangar Open Center in Hal Far (which translates as "Rat's Town") on June 21, 2011. <br />
<br />
Dawit was a language teacher in Tripoli and lived well, with no problems until the crisis started. He arrived in Malta on March 29th on a boat with 80 people after crossing the sea for 34 hours. "Once the UN resolution against Libya was signed there were State TV announcements (also in English) that announced that migrants were free to leave the country. It wasn't possible before that date because of the agreement between Italy and Libya". No police or army forced them to leave, but there was some kind of general pressure to get sub-saharan migrants out of the country and to have them leave by boat. In Dawit's case, his landlord told him he had one day to leave his apartment. "Buses in Tripoli were collecting people and deporting them", Dawit says. They couldn’t go towards Tunisia or Egypt, only towards to the coast. Other sub-Saharans were able to flee to Tunisia, but there aren't any Ethiopian embassies in Libya, so Ethiopians in Libya don't have any documents that allowed them to stay in the country or officially cross borders. Once they arrived at the port they didn't pay any fixed fee but all they had was confiscated, including food and water. A boat was given to them and they left. "People had bought food and water for their journey, but everything was confisfacted. I was lucky, because it took me only 34 hours to arrive in Malta, but it took these guys (indicating Michael, 25, and Mubarak – not in this picture -, 23, both from Ethiopia, standing next to him) 10 days to arrive", Dawit says. Michael, 25, stands next to Dawit. He was on a boat with his wife and two twins and arrived in Malta on April 12. It took him 10 days to arrive. They had no food and no water. They fed their 12 mont
    CIPG_20110621_NYT_MALTA__MG_1184.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 11 MAY 2020: Bruno De Crescenzo, owner of three bars in the city’s Spanish Quarters, poses for a portrait at the counter of his first bar - Spuzzulè Winebar - in Naples, Italy, on May 11th 2020.<br />
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When he threw a New Year’s Eve party to inaugurate his third bar in this city’s Spanish Quarters, he had reason to be optimistic: The once-rough neighbourhood was attracting foreign tourists and well-to-do Neapolitans willing to spend €5 on a glass of wine. That ended abruptly when Italy went into lockdown in March. And Mr. De Crescenzo isn’t sure it’s ever going to come back, even once the pandemic is over. “The real problem isn’t what we are facing right now,” says Mr. De Crescenzo, who applied for the €600 emergency payment from the government but hasn’t received it yet. “The real problem is what we’ll face tomorrow.” He recently had a taste of tomorrow could bring when he opened one of his bars for takeaway service earlier this month. Nobody came, and he shut down again. Even once bars and restaurants will be allowed to reopen properly – likely over the next few days – social distancing rules means he won’t be able to fit more than a handful of customers indoors at any one time.<br />
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The coronavirus pandemic has precipitated one of the worst economic downturns in generations across the world. But few major economies are likely to suffer as much as Italy’s, or take longer to recover.<br />
The health emergency has already left hundreds of thousands of Italians unable to pay for their own food for the first time. Experts warn that the poverty crisis is only just beginning, and that many of those who abruptly plunged into poverty may never be able to lift themselves out of it – even once the pandemic is over. Italy, more than its Western European neighbors, is ill-prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude. Its big problem is that its economy never really recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, leaving families poorer an
    CIPG_20200511_WSJ_NewPoor_7M306530.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 11 MAY 2020: Bruno De Crescenzo, owner of three bars in the city’s Spanish Quarters, poses for a portrait in front of his first bar - Spuzzulè Winebar - in Naples, Italy, on May 11th 2020.<br />
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When he threw a New Year’s Eve party to inaugurate his third bar in this city’s Spanish Quarters, he had reason to be optimistic: The once-rough neighbourhood was attracting foreign tourists and well-to-do Neapolitans willing to spend €5 on a glass of wine. That ended abruptly when Italy went into lockdown in March. And Mr. De Crescenzo isn’t sure it’s ever going to come back, even once the pandemic is over. “The real problem isn’t what we are facing right now,” says Mr. De Crescenzo, who applied for the €600 emergency payment from the government but hasn’t received it yet. “The real problem is what we’ll face tomorrow.” He recently had a taste of tomorrow could bring when he opened one of his bars for takeaway service earlier this month. Nobody came, and he shut down again. Even once bars and restaurants will be allowed to reopen properly – likely over the next few days – social distancing rules means he won’t be able to fit more than a handful of customers indoors at any one time.<br />
<br />
The coronavirus pandemic has precipitated one of the worst economic downturns in generations across the world. But few major economies are likely to suffer as much as Italy’s, or take longer to recover.<br />
The health emergency has already left hundreds of thousands of Italians unable to pay for their own food for the first time. Experts warn that the poverty crisis is only just beginning, and that many of those who abruptly plunged into poverty may never be able to lift themselves out of it – even once the pandemic is over. Italy, more than its Western European neighbors, is ill-prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude. Its big problem is that its economy never really recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, leaving families poorer and the
    CIPG_20200511_WSJ_NewPoor_7M306487.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: The shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products, owned by Arianna Esposito's parents, who both died due to complications from the coronavirus, is seen here in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Arianna Esposito spent days trying to get her mother hospitalized but health workers repeatedly told her her mother wasn’t sick enough to be tested. When her mother’s condition deteriorated, dispatchers on the coronavirus emergency line said she didn’t sound out of breath enough. Her lips turned purple and the ambulances finally came, but she died en route to the emergency room. Ms. Esposito’s father died in an intensive care ward days later. They left behind a shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products.<br />
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“Now we can use what is left in the house to eat, but we don’t have much,” said Ms. Esposito, 27, whose parents had provided a home and the only income for her and her year-old son. The boy’s father only worked off the books in another shop that had closed too. “Now we are even more scared because we know that nobody helps you.”<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
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The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organiza
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
    CIPG_20180526_WSJ_GenDivide_M3_2515.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
    CIPG_20180526_WSJ_GenDivide_M3_2478.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
    CIPG_20180526_WSJ_GenDivide_M3_2454.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
<br />
Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
    CIPG_20180526_WSJ_GenDivide_M3_2441.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
<br />
Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
    CIPG_20180526_WSJ_GenDivide_M3_2429.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 11 MAY 2020: Bruno De Crescenzo, owner of three bars in the city’s Spanish Quarters, poses for a portrait at the counter of his first bar - Spuzzulè Winebar - in Naples, Italy, on May 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
When he threw a New Year’s Eve party to inaugurate his third bar in this city’s Spanish Quarters, he had reason to be optimistic: The once-rough neighbourhood was attracting foreign tourists and well-to-do Neapolitans willing to spend €5 on a glass of wine. That ended abruptly when Italy went into lockdown in March. And Mr. De Crescenzo isn’t sure it’s ever going to come back, even once the pandemic is over. “The real problem isn’t what we are facing right now,” says Mr. De Crescenzo, who applied for the €600 emergency payment from the government but hasn’t received it yet. “The real problem is what we’ll face tomorrow.” He recently had a taste of tomorrow could bring when he opened one of his bars for takeaway service earlier this month. Nobody came, and he shut down again. Even once bars and restaurants will be allowed to reopen properly – likely over the next few days – social distancing rules means he won’t be able to fit more than a handful of customers indoors at any one time.<br />
<br />
The coronavirus pandemic has precipitated one of the worst economic downturns in generations across the world. But few major economies are likely to suffer as much as Italy’s, or take longer to recover.<br />
The health emergency has already left hundreds of thousands of Italians unable to pay for their own food for the first time. Experts warn that the poverty crisis is only just beginning, and that many of those who abruptly plunged into poverty may never be able to lift themselves out of it – even once the pandemic is over. Italy, more than its Western European neighbors, is ill-prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude. Its big problem is that its economy never really recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, leaving families poorer an
    CIPG_20200511_WSJ_NewPoor_7M306528.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 11 MAY 2020: Bruno De Crescenzo, owner of three bars in the city’s Spanish Quarters, poses for a portrait in front of his first bar - Spuzzulè Winebar - in Naples, Italy, on May 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
When he threw a New Year’s Eve party to inaugurate his third bar in this city’s Spanish Quarters, he had reason to be optimistic: The once-rough neighbourhood was attracting foreign tourists and well-to-do Neapolitans willing to spend €5 on a glass of wine. That ended abruptly when Italy went into lockdown in March. And Mr. De Crescenzo isn’t sure it’s ever going to come back, even once the pandemic is over. “The real problem isn’t what we are facing right now,” says Mr. De Crescenzo, who applied for the €600 emergency payment from the government but hasn’t received it yet. “The real problem is what we’ll face tomorrow.” He recently had a taste of tomorrow could bring when he opened one of his bars for takeaway service earlier this month. Nobody came, and he shut down again. Even once bars and restaurants will be allowed to reopen properly – likely over the next few days – social distancing rules means he won’t be able to fit more than a handful of customers indoors at any one time.<br />
<br />
The coronavirus pandemic has precipitated one of the worst economic downturns in generations across the world. But few major economies are likely to suffer as much as Italy’s, or take longer to recover.<br />
The health emergency has already left hundreds of thousands of Italians unable to pay for their own food for the first time. Experts warn that the poverty crisis is only just beginning, and that many of those who abruptly plunged into poverty may never be able to lift themselves out of it – even once the pandemic is over. Italy, more than its Western European neighbors, is ill-prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude. Its big problem is that its economy never really recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, leaving families poorer and the
    CIPG_20200511_WSJ_NewPoor_7M306487.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 11 MAY 2020: Bruno De Crescenzo, owner of three bars in the city’s Spanish Quarters, poses for a portrait in front of his first bar - Spuzzulè Winebar - in Naples, Italy, on May 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
When he threw a New Year’s Eve party to inaugurate his third bar in this city’s Spanish Quarters, he had reason to be optimistic: The once-rough neighbourhood was attracting foreign tourists and well-to-do Neapolitans willing to spend €5 on a glass of wine. That ended abruptly when Italy went into lockdown in March. And Mr. De Crescenzo isn’t sure it’s ever going to come back, even once the pandemic is over. “The real problem isn’t what we are facing right now,” says Mr. De Crescenzo, who applied for the €600 emergency payment from the government but hasn’t received it yet. “The real problem is what we’ll face tomorrow.” He recently had a taste of tomorrow could bring when he opened one of his bars for takeaway service earlier this month. Nobody came, and he shut down again. Even once bars and restaurants will be allowed to reopen properly – likely over the next few days – social distancing rules means he won’t be able to fit more than a handful of customers indoors at any one time.<br />
<br />
The coronavirus pandemic has precipitated one of the worst economic downturns in generations across the world. But few major economies are likely to suffer as much as Italy’s, or take longer to recover.<br />
The health emergency has already left hundreds of thousands of Italians unable to pay for their own food for the first time. Experts warn that the poverty crisis is only just beginning, and that many of those who abruptly plunged into poverty may never be able to lift themselves out of it – even once the pandemic is over. Italy, more than its Western European neighbors, is ill-prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude. Its big problem is that its economy never really recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, leaving families poorer and the
    CIPG_20200511_WSJ_NewPoor_7M306468.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 11 MAY 2020: Bruno De Crescenzo, owner of three bars in the city’s Spanish Quarters, poses for a portrait at the counter of his first bar - Spuzzulè Winebar - in Naples, Italy, on May 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
When he threw a New Year’s Eve party to inaugurate his third bar in this city’s Spanish Quarters, he had reason to be optimistic: The once-rough neighbourhood was attracting foreign tourists and well-to-do Neapolitans willing to spend €5 on a glass of wine. That ended abruptly when Italy went into lockdown in March. And Mr. De Crescenzo isn’t sure it’s ever going to come back, even once the pandemic is over. “The real problem isn’t what we are facing right now,” says Mr. De Crescenzo, who applied for the €600 emergency payment from the government but hasn’t received it yet. “The real problem is what we’ll face tomorrow.” He recently had a taste of tomorrow could bring when he opened one of his bars for takeaway service earlier this month. Nobody came, and he shut down again. Even once bars and restaurants will be allowed to reopen properly – likely over the next few days – social distancing rules means he won’t be able to fit more than a handful of customers indoors at any one time.<br />
<br />
The coronavirus pandemic has precipitated one of the worst economic downturns in generations across the world. But few major economies are likely to suffer as much as Italy’s, or take longer to recover.<br />
The health emergency has already left hundreds of thousands of Italians unable to pay for their own food for the first time. Experts warn that the poverty crisis is only just beginning, and that many of those who abruptly plunged into poverty may never be able to lift themselves out of it – even once the pandemic is over. Italy, more than its Western European neighbors, is ill-prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude. Its big problem is that its economy never really recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, leaving families poorer an
    CIPG_20200511_WSJ_NewPoor_7M306530.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 11 MAY 2020: Bruno De Crescenzo, owner of three bars in the city’s Spanish Quarters, poses for a portrait at the counter of his first bar - Spuzzulè Winebar - in Naples, Italy, on May 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
When he threw a New Year’s Eve party to inaugurate his third bar in this city’s Spanish Quarters, he had reason to be optimistic: The once-rough neighbourhood was attracting foreign tourists and well-to-do Neapolitans willing to spend €5 on a glass of wine. That ended abruptly when Italy went into lockdown in March. And Mr. De Crescenzo isn’t sure it’s ever going to come back, even once the pandemic is over. “The real problem isn’t what we are facing right now,” says Mr. De Crescenzo, who applied for the €600 emergency payment from the government but hasn’t received it yet. “The real problem is what we’ll face tomorrow.” He recently had a taste of tomorrow could bring when he opened one of his bars for takeaway service earlier this month. Nobody came, and he shut down again. Even once bars and restaurants will be allowed to reopen properly – likely over the next few days – social distancing rules means he won’t be able to fit more than a handful of customers indoors at any one time.<br />
<br />
The coronavirus pandemic has precipitated one of the worst economic downturns in generations across the world. But few major economies are likely to suffer as much as Italy’s, or take longer to recover.<br />
The health emergency has already left hundreds of thousands of Italians unable to pay for their own food for the first time. Experts warn that the poverty crisis is only just beginning, and that many of those who abruptly plunged into poverty may never be able to lift themselves out of it – even once the pandemic is over. Italy, more than its Western European neighbors, is ill-prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude. Its big problem is that its economy never really recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, leaving families poorer an
    CIPG_20200511_WSJ_NewPoor_7M306528.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 11 MAY 2020: Bruno De Crescenzo, owner of three bars in the city’s Spanish Quarters, poses for a portrait in front of his first bar - Spuzzulè Winebar - in Naples, Italy, on May 11th 2020.<br />
<br />
When he threw a New Year’s Eve party to inaugurate his third bar in this city’s Spanish Quarters, he had reason to be optimistic: The once-rough neighbourhood was attracting foreign tourists and well-to-do Neapolitans willing to spend €5 on a glass of wine. That ended abruptly when Italy went into lockdown in March. And Mr. De Crescenzo isn’t sure it’s ever going to come back, even once the pandemic is over. “The real problem isn’t what we are facing right now,” says Mr. De Crescenzo, who applied for the €600 emergency payment from the government but hasn’t received it yet. “The real problem is what we’ll face tomorrow.” He recently had a taste of tomorrow could bring when he opened one of his bars for takeaway service earlier this month. Nobody came, and he shut down again. Even once bars and restaurants will be allowed to reopen properly – likely over the next few days – social distancing rules means he won’t be able to fit more than a handful of customers indoors at any one time.<br />
<br />
The coronavirus pandemic has precipitated one of the worst economic downturns in generations across the world. But few major economies are likely to suffer as much as Italy’s, or take longer to recover.<br />
The health emergency has already left hundreds of thousands of Italians unable to pay for their own food for the first time. Experts warn that the poverty crisis is only just beginning, and that many of those who abruptly plunged into poverty may never be able to lift themselves out of it – even once the pandemic is over. Italy, more than its Western European neighbors, is ill-prepared to deal with a crisis of this magnitude. Its big problem is that its economy never really recovered from the 2008 financial crisis, leaving families poorer and the
    CIPG_20200511_WSJ_NewPoor_7M306468.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 14 APRIL 2020: The shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products, owned by Arianna Esposito's parents, who both died due to complications from the coronavirus, is seen here in Naples, Italy, on April 14th 2020. Arianna Esposito spent days trying to get her mother hospitalized but health workers repeatedly told her her mother wasn’t sick enough to be tested. When her mother’s condition deteriorated, dispatchers on the coronavirus emergency line said she didn’t sound out of breath enough. Her lips turned purple and the ambulances finally came, but she died en route to the emergency room. Ms. Esposito’s father died in an intensive care ward days later. They left behind a shuttered store that sold detergent and cleaning products.<br />
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“Now we can use what is left in the house to eat, but we don’t have much,” said Ms. Esposito, 27, whose parents had provided a home and the only income for her and her year-old son. The boy’s father only worked off the books in another shop that had closed too. “Now we are even more scared because we know that nobody helps you.”<br />
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Southern Italians are facing a war on two fronts. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic, among the deadliest in the world with nearly 20,000 deaths, exploded in the country’s wealthy north, where it stretched one of Europe’s most sophisticated healthcare systems to the limits and shut down the country’s economic engine. But it is the country’s poorer, less developed south that has loomed over the entire crisis and which figured prominently in the government’s decision to lock down all of Italy last month.<br />
<br />
The south is facing economic carnage not seen since the post-war era. The region’s poor, used to scraping by with temporary contracts or off-the-books jobs, are now increasingly dependent on handouts. Scattered, but troubling, reports of unrest at supermarkets puncture the Italian narrative of patriotic sacrifice. And officials are concerned that criminal organiza
    CIPG_20200414_NYT_Coronavirus-Naples...jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
    CIPG_20180526_WSJ_GenDivide_M3_2523.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
<br />
Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
    CIPG_20180526_WSJ_GenDivide_M3_2512.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
<br />
Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
<br />
Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
<br />
Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
<br />
The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
    CIPG_20180526_WSJ_GenDivide_M3_2502.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
    CIPG_20180526_WSJ_GenDivide_M3_2425.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 26 MAY 2018: Giada Gramanzini, a 29-year-old unemployed university graduate who moved back in with her retired parents, poses for a portrait in her childhood bedroom in Naples, Italy, on May 26th 2018.<br />
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Credit: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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Slug: GENDIVIDE<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.<br />
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Giada Gramanzini hasn’t found a job since deciding last year not to renew a three-month contract as a fulltime receptionist that paid her 400 euros a month, or about $2.80 an hour. She sent out about 70 resumes in the past six months in search of a job where she can put her degree in foreign languages to work.<br />
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The Italian economy last year grew at its fastest rate since 2010, but the improvement hasn’t trickled down to millions of people in their 20s and 30s, leaving a yawning generation gap with their baby boomer parents.
    CIPG_20180526_WSJ_GenDivide_M3_2418.jpg
  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: The occupied building where Marilena Colantuono (37), unemployed and mother of three, lives, in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: Marilena Colantuono (37), an unemployed mother of three children, looks out of the window of her occupied apartment in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: Marilena Colantuono (37), an unemployed mother of three children, poses for a portrait in her occupied apartment in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: The children's recreational room at the NGO L'Albero della vita is seen here in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: A public housing complex is seen here in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
    CIPG_20200512_WSJ_NewPoor_7M306829.jpg
  • SANT'ANASTASIA, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Giusi Amodio (44), an elementary school teacher, teaches her last day of school online to 4th graders  with a tablet from her home in Sant'Anastasia, Italy, on May 29th 2020. <br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
    CIPG_20200529_WSJ-Dropouts_7M308189_...jpg
  • SANT'ANASTASIA, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Giusi Amodio (44), an elementary school teacher, teaches her last day of school online to 4th graders  with a tablet from her home in Sant'Anastasia, Italy, on May 29th 2020. <br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
    CIPG_20200529_WSJ-Dropouts_7M308540.jpg
  • SANT'ANASTASIA, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Giusi Amodio (44), an elementary school teacher, teaches her last day of school online to 4th graders  with a tablet from her home in Sant'Anastasia, Italy, on May 29th 2020. <br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
    CIPG_20200529_WSJ-Dropouts_7M308469.jpg
  • SANT'ANASTASIA, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: A 4th grader is seen here online on the tablet of Giusi Amodio (44), an elementary school teacher, during the last day of school, in Sant'Anastasia, Italy, on May 29th 2020. <br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
    CIPG_20200529_WSJ-Dropouts_7M308415.jpg
  • SANT'ANASTASIA, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Giusi Amodio (44), an elementary school teacher, teaches her last day of school online to 4th graders  with a tablet from her home in Sant'Anastasia, Italy, on May 29th 2020. <br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
    CIPG_20200529_WSJ-Dropouts_7M308392.jpg
  • SANT'ANASTASIA, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Giusi Amodio (44), an elementary school teacher, teaches her last day of school online to 4th graders  with a tablet from her home in Sant'Anastasia, Italy, on May 29th 2020. <br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • SANT'ANASTASIA, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Giusi Amodio (44), an elementary school teacher, teaches her last day of school online to 4th graders  with a tablet from her home in Sant'Anastasia, Italy, on May 29th 2020. <br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, as his teacher explains a math exercise , here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade, center) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, as his mother Marilena Colantuono (37) looks at the screen and his sister Ilaria plays with their dog Maya, here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, as his teacher Giusi Amodio (44) explains the last lesson of the year , here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, as his teacher Giusi Amodio (44) explains the last lesson of the year , here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, as his mother Marilena Colantuono (37) looks at the screen, in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Street art is seen here on a public housing complex in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Street art is seen here on a public housing complex in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: A view from an occupied building in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of  Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9), is seen here in the living room after attending his online school class from his mother's smartphone, in an occupied apartment in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: Marilena Colantuono (37), an unemployed mother of three children, opens the curtain in her occupied apartment in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: Giorgio Colantuono (15), is seen here in the living room after attending his online school class from his mother's smartphone, in an occupied apartment in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: Marilena Colantuono (37), an unemployed mother of three children, poses for a portrait in her occupied apartment in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: Giorgio Colantuono (15), attends his online school class from his mother's smartphone in his room, which he shares with his younger sister and brother, in an occupied apartment in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020:  The playground of the "Eduardo De Filippo" primary and secondary school is seen here in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020:  The main hall of the "Eduardo De Filippo" primary and secondary school is seen here in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: A classroom of the 1'st grade of secondary schoo of the "Eduardo De Filippo" school, of which only two students of a total of twelve attend the online classes, is seen here in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: (L) Concetta Stramacchia (55), the principle of the primary and seconday school "Eduardo De Filippo" in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, is seen here during an interview together in Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: The playground of the primary and secondary school "Eduardo De Filippo" is seen here next to a public housing complex in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: A view of the school "Euduardo De Filippo" in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of  Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 12 MAY 2020: Patrizia Pica Ciamarra (46), who runs the local section of the NGO L'Albero della vita in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, leaves the local office in Naples, Italy, on May 12th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 11 MAY 2020: Giulia Improta (34), a mother of three, poses for a portrait in her apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 11th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • SANT'ANASTASIA, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Giusi Amodio (44), an elementary school teacher, teaches her last day of school online to 4th graders  with a tablet from her home in Sant'Anastasia, Italy, on May 29th 2020. <br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • SANT'ANASTASIA, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: A 4th grader is seen here online on the tablet of Giusi Amodio (44), an elementary school teacher, during the last day of school, in Sant'Anastasia, Italy, on May 29th 2020. <br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, as his teacher explains a math exercise , here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade, center) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, as his mother Marilena Colantuono (37) looks at the screen and his sister Ilaria plays with their dog Maya, here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade, center) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, as his mother Marilena Colantuono (37) looks at the screen and his sister Ilaria plays with their dog Maya, here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, as his teacher Giusi Amodio (44) explains the last lesson of the year , here in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Raffaele Giusti (9, 4th grade) attends his last day of school, logged in online with his mother's smartphone, as his mother Marilena Colantuono (37) looks at the screen, in an occupied apartment in Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020. Raffaele needs to share his mother's smartphone with his two older siblings for online classes, since the family cannot afford a computer or tablet.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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  • NAPLES, ITALY - 29 MAY 2020: Street art is seen here on a public housing complex in Ponticelli, a district in the outskirts of Naples, Italy, on May 29th 2020.<br />
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In Italy, a country ravaged by the coronavirus, there is a new casualty: Students. Many children from low-income families have effectively dropped out of school, say teachers and charity groups, the result of the prolonged, nation-wide school closure caused by the pandemic. In early March Italy became one of the first countries in the world to shut down all schools, forcing teachers to turn to remote learning. But many families have struggled with the shift, and many children have been left behind. Around 12% of school-age children don’t have a computer or a tablet at home, and parents are often unable or unwilling to help. The Covid dropouts are intensifying a problem that was already there. Even before the pandemic, Italy had one of the highest school dropout rates in Europe. And there is no solution in sight, since schools won’t reopen before September at the earliest. The problem is particularly acute among poor and marginalized communities in places such as Naples, where teenagers are easily lured into the ranks of organized crime syndicates. In one middle-school on the outskirts of the city, for instance, around 10% of students didn’t access online classes at all. Many others participate only occasionally. “I’ve never had this many kids not come to school,” says Barbara De Cerbo, the headmaster. “There is the fear that we’ll lose some of them for good.”<br />
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CREDIT: Gianni Cipriano for The Wall Street Journal<br />
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SLUG: DROPOUTS
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