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labor day: May 1
People in the Philippines today especially laborers use this day as a “rally day”. Workers and other people march and always shout for high in salary. We can’t blame them for this because as we experienced today, the price of many daily necessities are getting higher and the people are having hard time in budgeting their salary. When they receive their salaries they can’t bring it home fully, there are many deductions; in tax, electric & water bill, “utang”, etc. Some people don’t have that much income to survive for a day, their alternatives are eating dirty foods, begging for some money in streets and some even do bad things in order to have something to eat. People now are desperately rallying to ask for a salary wage increase to the government.
Is this government working on this problem or they just let this issue pass again. This issue is still going back again and again for ages now and yet this has not been solved.
poverty or just lack of good governance?
