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SEARCH HOME NEWS & FEATURES OPINION LIFESTYLE SPECIAL SECTIONS READER SERVICES | May 13, 2008

Mothers, kids bewail high price of rice

Published: April 1, 2008   |     |     |   Subscribe: RSS or Email    

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Teresita Edir, a pushcart vendor in Agdao market, and her children join a recent march organized by urban poor group Kalipunan ng Damayang Mahihirap (Kadamay) demanding for the ouster of President Arroyo. Edir complains that her earnings could hardly buy a kilo of rice from the National Food Authority (NFA). NFA rice is the cheapest rice sold in the market. “In Erap’s time, we could buy rice at P10 a kilo,” she recalls the time of former President Joseph Estrada. “Now, rice is P18 per kilo under Gloria! With a President like her, life only gets harder. She’s corrupt and she has not done anything to alleviate the situation of poor.” (davaotoday.com photo by Barry Ohaylan)

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