Nearly half of the Filipino families are finding themselves poor and 1.8 million others feel they are “newly poor,” said the latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS). The SWS survey of June showed that 48 percent of Filipino families rate themselves as poor, 29 percent are borderline poor, and 23 percent are not …

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