Real trouble
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Hunger and poverty have risen, and are likely to rise some more, given the harsh economic conditions today, plus the never-ending skyrocketing prices of even essential goods and services. Yet all Noynoy can say is that the results of the March survey on these two items are flawed, and do not reflect the voice of the respondents who are the recipients of his conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, who he claims, are mainly from the Visayas and Mindanao.
An even more idiotic comment from Noynoy was one where he said that the CCT funds could not have possibly reached the beneficiaries in two weeks time, or even less such as two to three days of field surveying.
But if that CCT program was already implemented since say, July of last year — which would be a continuation of Gloria Arroyo’s CCT involving 1 million beneficiaries, plus Noynoy’s expanded CCT from say, January to March this year, then the hunger and poverty rate would not have risen that much..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110411com2.html
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