NOW for a piece of good news: the latest quarterly survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed that nearly 60 percent of Filipino families are already considered “non-poor,” a significant improvement from just 48 percent in December 2014.

Conversely, the proportion of families considering themselves poor has fallen to 42 percent, or 10 percentage points from 52 percent four years ago.

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