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Worst year for OFWs

Worst year for OFWs

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
"OFWs are still forced to go abroad because the government has offered them nothing substantive and sustainable to address their families's economic needs. Instead, what it has offered are mere dole-outs and band-aid solutions that does not do anything to address widespread unemployment and landlessness the root cause of forced migration." – Migrante International

SONA: Truth or Spectacle?

SONA: Truth or Spectacle?

By the Policy Study, Publication, and Advocacy Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CenPEG) Posted by Bulatlat.com The true state of the nation is in the people who live under the harshest of conditions in the margins of society yet see in collective...

In First Sona, Aquino Promises Windfall for Business, ‘Not Much’ for Poor Filipinos

In First Sona, Aquino Promises Windfall for Business, ‘Not Much’ for Poor Filipinos

By BULATLAT STAFF
No mention of land reform, no promise of any wage hike, no hint that the budget for education and basic social services will be increased, no reference to the reality that debt servicing eats into the national budget more than the corruption at the MWSS or Napocor or NFA, and no acknowledgment of the fact that the cease-fire precondition for the resumption of the peace talks with the Communists is the same precondition that bogged down previous negotiations.

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