Food group calls on Noynoy to address ‘hard life’ of Pinoys
04/11/2011A network of food security organizations called on President Aquino over the weekend to implement a package of urgent measures to relieve consumers of high prices after a survey found that a growing number of people were experiencing hunger and considering themselves poor under his administration.
Among the short-term measures the Task Force Food Sovereignty (TFFS) proposes include suspension of the implementation of the 12 percent value-added tax (VAT), suspension of oil price hikes, increase of minimum wage, and increase of production and price support for farmers..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20110411nat6.html
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