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Read more about the article Youth partylist expects the worst in Duterte’s ‘radical change’ pronouncement
President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his speech during the 102nd Annual Communication of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of the Free and Accepted Mason in the Philippines at the SMX Convention Center in Davao City on April 26, 2018. (Malacañang photo)

Youth partylist expects the worst in Duterte’s ‘radical change’ pronouncement

Kabataan party-list has expressed alarm and grave concern over President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement that he would “make radical changes in the days to come.”

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Read more about the article Alarm raised over Duterte’s “radical changes”
President Rodrigo Duterte salutes as he walks past the foyer guards prior to his departure at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport for his three-day official visit to the Republic of Korea on early Sunday morning, June 3, 2018. (Malacañang photo)

Alarm raised over Duterte’s “radical changes”

Various groups have expressed alarm over the recent pronouncement of President Rodrigo Duterte to implement “radical changes”.

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Read more about the article Workers dismayed with NEDA’s P10K monthly living budget
Rodel, 37 years old, and his family live under the Bolton bridge. They roam around downtown to beg for money to buy food. The First Quarter 2015 Social Weather Survey, conducted last March 20-23, showed 13.5% or an estimated 3 million families are experiencing involuntary hunger at least once in the past three months. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)

Workers dismayed with NEDA’s P10K monthly living budget

Militant labor scoffed at the National Economic Development Authority for being “ridiculous” in pegging a P10,000 as decent monthly family budget.

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Read more about the article ‘Try living on a P10,000 month budget’ – progressive lawmakers
This mother does everything from handling a child, cleaning the house and cooking the food in a charcoal stove in her house along Boulevard Street. Poverty and housing is still a concern in this city. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

‘Try living on a P10,000 month budget’ – progressive lawmakers

Various labor groups and individuals have denounced as “misleading and unrealistic” the statement of a National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) official that the living standard for a Filipino family of five is P10,000 a month.

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