On this issue, Pravda also interviewed CELSI researcher Martin Guzi, who focuses on the economics of happiness and, within CELSI, has long been devoted to concepts of decent pay for work.

Food is becoming an important indicator of social inequality?

According to Eurostat, 8.5 percent of EU residents could not afford quality ingredients for a proper meal every other day last year.

“Slovaks are much worse off than the average European. Regular quality meals are, according to Eurostat, inaccessible to more than 17 percent of the population – that is roughly 920,000 people,” writes Pravda daily.

“Eurostat’s statistics are a clear warning. While the EU as a whole is moving toward slight improvement, Slovakia finds itself in a situation that requires serious attention. Access to food is not just a health issue, but also a social and political one – it reflects how well the state can protect its most vulnerable groups,” stressed the article’s author, Jaroslav Fabok.

On this issue, Pravda also interviewed Martin Guzi, researcher at the Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) and Masaryk University, who focuses on the economics of happiness and, within CELSI, has long been devoted to concepts of decent pay for work.

At CELSI, he contributes to the calculation of several types of decent pay, developed by differentiated by the form of work – the Living Wage for standard employees, the Living Tariff for digital platform workers, and the Living Income, for example, for the self-employed.

🔗 Full article (in Slovak) at: https://ekonomika.pravda.sk/ludia/clanok/765475-na-slovensku-sa-z-kvalitneho-jedla-stava-luxus-ktory-si-stovky-tisic-ludi-nemozu-dovolit-v-europe-sme-na-uplnom-chvoste/

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