MANILA, Philippines — Self-rated poor Filipino families significantly increased last year despite indicators showing that they have already lowered their living standards, the fourth quarter ...

MANILA, Philippines — An estimated 2.8 million Filipino families are considered “newly poor” in the last quarter of 2024, the Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey on self-rated poverty showed.

Half of Filipino families, or an estimated 13.2 million households, consider themselves poor, according to the latest Tugon ...

About 50% or 13.2 million Filipino families considered themselves poor in the fourth quarter of 2024, an increase from 11.3 ...

Based on the survey results released Wednesday, 63 percent of Filipino families rated themselves as poor, 11 percent as borderline (in between poor and not poor), and 26 percent said they are not ...

Inspired by the positive rating of President Ferdinand  R. Marcos Jr. in implementing housing program for the poor, the ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino families who consider themselves poor continued to increase in the fourth quarter of 2024, with half of them—the highest in more than 20 years — rating ...