FROM BAD TO WORSE?

The article discusses the austerity package passed by the parliament in Rome, Italy, on July 14, 2011, which includes cuts to pensions, education, health and several other areas of public spending where most of the country's middle and working-class people depend. It says that the government approved the sell-off of local government-controlled public services, post office and national energy firms after the referendum in June 2011. The growing income inequality in the country is also discussed.