SWS: Self-rated poverty in March highest for Aquino gov't
Results of the SWS poll revealed that Filipinos who claimed they are poor rose to 55 percent in March, a 10-point increase from December last year.
The self-rated poverty of 45 percent in December was contrarily the lowest since President Benigno Aquino III was elected to office.
Respondents from Mindanao who found themselves poor nearly doubled from 38 percent to 72 percent, results showed.
PERSONAL REACTION
We cannot deny that Philippines belongs to a third world country and poverty is large here but I think that the Aquino government is not doing great as of helping the country.
President Aquino is in the position for over a year now. At the start of his term he said that he will make the country better and poverty will not be a problem but all he said was just words he didn't do good.
Poverty increases everyday because the cost of living is getting higher and many people don't have a job. What I think is the best thing that the president could do is that he must make more job opportunities for the people not buying luxury cars and dating girls.
Every people in this country is affected on what the government is doing. I just hope that the president could exert more effort on helping the country and our fellow people who are suffering from poverty.
