5.9M Filipinos no longer poor in 2018

More Filipinos were lifted out of poverty in 2018, with the Philippine Statistics Authority reporting a decline in the number of poor families.

Still, this meant 17.6 million Filipinos, or about 3 million families, did not earn enough to buy their basic food and non-food needs. Some 800,000 families also remained"food poor," who are unable to raise the money needed to buy the right amount of food. The PSA set the poverty threshold at ₱10,727 per month, which is deemed enough to support a family of five in 2018.

"The sustained implementation, expansion, and enhancement of the government’s social assistance programs provided additional income to the poorest sectors of the society," NEDA Officer-in-Charge and Undersecretary Adoracion Navarro said in a Friday briefing. Poverty reduction was a trend across island groups, with the biggest drop recorderd in the Visayas. The highest poverty incidence rates were tallied in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao at 61.3 percent, followed by Zamboanga Peninsula , and Eastern Visayas .

The decline in poverty is happening at the same time the Dilawans are dying. YesToABSCBNShutdown

“The PSA set the poverty threshold at ₱10,727 per month on average, which is deemed enough to support a family of five in 2018.” Um, what. 🙃🙃🙃🙃

5.9M filipinos no longer poor my ass! Just go around the PH to see the real situation! This definitely is fake news!

This government did many things right. And the praise didn’t come from them. Good job!

Can we have a breakdown of this per province please?

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