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What about the poor?

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13-million Filipinos rate themselves as poor–SWS

More Filipinos considered themselves poor as of December last year, a Social Weather Stations survey showed Thursday. Around 13.1-million Filipino families or 54 percent labeled...

Deal for poor

Quezon City Councilor Imee Rillo, the four government hospitals, and two funeral parlors recently signed an agreement to give health benefits and burial assistance...

Fewer Pinoys rate selves as ‘poor‘

Fewer families consider themselves as poor in the third quarter of the year compared to the previous period, a Social Weather Stations survey showed...

Using the poor as an excuse

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Shelter

A homeless family sleeping under a backhoe machine is a common scene at the Port Area in Manila, despite government promises to uplift the...

North Korean refugees find new pressures in the South

SEOUL"•When elite North Korean soldier Joo Seung-hyeon made his way through the Demilitarized Zone, avoiding minefields and watchtowers to defect to the South, he...

MMDA: Solving traffic gridlock will take time

A SOLUTION to the P3.5-billion daily loss to the traffic gridlock exists but the problem cannot be solved overnight, the Metro Manila Development Authority...

Fewer Pinoys think drug war hits only the poor

The number of Filipinos who believe that it is only the poor and not the rich who are being killed in the administration’s bloody...

QC putting up own crematorium for poor

THE Quezon City government is putting up its own crematorium to service the poor. In an interview, Ramon Matabang, head of the city civil registry,...

Estrada vows to take care of poor

True to his movie character as the “Robin Hood of Tondo”, Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada has reassured the city’s poorest of the poor that...

More Pinoys claim to be poor

THE number of Filipinos who considered themselves as “poor” posted a significant six-point rise in the last three months over the same period last...

Majority of Filipinos remain poor – ALU-TUCP

MORE than 30 million minimum wage earners, half of them hired on contractual schemes, remained working poor as the value of purchasing power of...

Tax fraud deprives poor of services

THE tobacco tax fraud has been depriving the poor of vital health services, Health Secretary Paulyn Jean B. Rosell-Ubial said Friday. Ubial decried how the...
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