MANILA, Philippines — Around 800,000 more Filipino families rated themselves poor in July, bringing the total to roughly 11.9 million, a recent survey found. OCTA Research reported on Tuesday, August ...

The number of poor Filipino families who experienced total hunger “rose sharply” from 26.4% in February to 35.6% in March this year, results of a non-commissioned survey by the Stratbase-Social ...

Filipino families were poor in 2023. A family is classified as poor when it earns less than a defined threshold income (“poverty line”) set by the ...