Govt urged to address rising number of child laborers

By Moises Cruz

Mar 08, 2023 12:35 am

ANAKALUSUGAN party-list Rep. Ray Florence Reyes voiced alarm about the data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) that indicated 1.37 million children ages 5 to 17 were working in 2021, a number that was greater than the 872,333 children of the same age who were working in 2020.

'The half-a-million jump in the number of child laborers in the country from 2020 should be raising red flags. This is unacceptable,' Reyes said.

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