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SWS: Self-rated poverty at 63%, highest since 2003
Filipino families who consider themselves poor continued to increase in the fourth quarter of 2024, with half of them—the ...
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Self-rated hunger nearly doubles in 2024 – SWS
The percentage of Filipino families that experienced involuntary hunger last year almost matched the figure at the height of ...
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Meet the poor Filipinos living in Manila’s cemetery for the rich
The makeshift house of Jocelyn De Los Santos sits atop a mausoleum in Manila North Cemetery, one of the oldest and largest graveyards in the Philippines. She must use an elevated tomb as a ...
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Hunger rate at its highest since pandemic — SWS
The number of Filipino households experiencing involuntary hunger has jumped to 25.9%, the highest since the COVID-19 ...
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Legarda notes poor Metro air
Senator Loren Legarda has urged the authorities to strictly implement the Clean Air Act after Metro Manila’s air quality ...
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Inferno destroys thousands of shanties in Manila’s biggest slum area
Drone footage from the Manila Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office showed raging orange flames razing densely packed stilt homes in Isla Puting Bato, a squalid area of Tondo, Manila. The ...
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Lessons from the Los Angeles fires
WATCHING the continuing media coverage of the Los Angeles firestorm reminded me of the fire that swept the depressed area ...