It’s the poverty, stupid
There appears to be a clear disconnect between the current focus—obsession might be the more accurate word—of government policy and ...
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SWS: Duterte gets ‘very good’ rating in first 3 months of presidency
President Rodrigo Duterte gets a ‘very good’ rating in a survey conducted by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) during the ...
Read moreAquino ratings drop again
PRESIDENT Benigno Aquino III’s public satisfaction dropped to its lowest since the first quarter of 2015, according to the latest ...
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UNA criticizes SWS’ statistical methods
THE United Nationalist Alliance on Sunday expressed displeasure with how the polling firm Social Weather Stations continued to lend credence ...
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Pre-empting the people’s will
It is anomalous, irregular, if not downright criminal, for a privately funded poll survey like the Social Weather Stations to ...
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Voters want bets to keep dole program
MOST Filipinos will vote for a candidate who supports the continuation of the government’s multi-billion-peso dole program, despite criticism that ...
Read moreFilipinos’ hunger worsens
INVOLUNTARY hunger worsened in the last quarter of 2015 with more than three million families claiming to have experienced hunger ...
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New poll shows PNoy’s ratings still going down
THE public satisfaction rating of President Benigno Aquino III plunged to its lowest level during the first quarter of 2015, ...
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Manila Standard website (manilastandard.net), launched in August 2002, extends the newspaper’s reach beyond its traditional readers and makes its brand of Philippine news and opinion available to a much wider and geographically diverse readership here and overseas.