POVERTY increased in the second quarter with around half of Filipino families considering themselves poor, OCTA Research said on Tuesday.

Some 50 percent or an estimated 13.2 million households rated themselves as poor, OCTA's July 2023 Tugon ng Masa Survey found.

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