AN estimated 11.2 million Filipino families see themselves as poor, according to a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey conducted in the second quarter of the year.
The results were released on Monday simultaneously with President Benigno Aquino 3rd’s sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA) where he took pride in rolling out poverty alleviation measures such as the conditional cash transfer and technical-skills training programs and improving the business climate that resulted in job generation.
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