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• US$329M worth of NBN-ZTE Deal
• 65 million Filipinos or 80% of the population are struggling to survive on the equivalent of US$ 2 a day. Based on the current exchange rate, thats around P 80/ day. (Ibon, Mar 2007)
• Poverty treshold is pegged at PhP 41 per person per day for food and non-food needs(NSCB, March 2007). This means if you have more than PhP 41 per day, you are not considered poor. Let's say you are a balut vendor who earns around PhP 100 a day, you are not poor.
• Almost 1 out of 2 Filipinos see themselves as poor.
• 46% of Filipinos families (estimated 8.1 million families or about 40.5 million Filipinos out of the 2007 projected population of 86 million) see themselves as poor.
• The cost of living is PhP 158 per person per day for food and non-food needs (NWPC, July 2007)
• PhP 792 is the dailly cost of living for a family of 5 living in the National Capital Region
• Minimum wage in the Philippines is PhP 362 a day. A large percentage of the work force earn below minimum wage.
• 1 in 10 Filipinos has never gone to school (6.8 million) (Education Network Quick Stats, 2003)
• 1 in 6 Filipinos is not functionally literate (9.6 million)
• 4.1 million Filipinos are complete illiterate.
• 1 in 3 children/ youth is not attending school(11.6 million)
• 12 Filipinos die of dirty water daily (Cebu Daily News citing USAID, November 7, 2006
• More than 90% of all sewage in the Philippines is untreated (Cebu Daily News citing the World Bank, November 7, 2006)
• 10 Filipino women die daily from childbirth-related complications because they do not have access to emergency obstetric care. We have among the highest maternal mortality rate (estimated at 162 per 100,000 live births) in Asia and the world. (FIES, 20063,300 workers leave the country daily (Ibon, Mar 2007
• Income of top 10% of the income decile is equivalent to 19 times that of the poorest 10 percent. (2006 FIES)
• 3.5 million families or the top 20% of the income decile account for 52.8% or more than half of the total family income, while the remaining 47.3% was shared by the poorest 80% or 13.9 million families. (2006 FIES)
• 7 out of 10 peasants still do not own land while less than 1/3 of landowners own more than 80% of agricultural land (Ibon, 2006)
• Oil companies earn PhP 110 million a day in 2006 (Ibon, 2007)
• 16.1 million Filipino workers or more than 50 percent of the labor force (in 2005) earn wages around Php5,000-8,000 (wages that hover around the poverty threshold), which translates to PhP33-53 per person per day (6.1 M farmers and fisherfolk and 10 M laborers and unskilled workers) (pegged at PhP41 per person per day).
• 4.1 million Filipinos * (or 7.3% of the total labor force) are unemployed (NSO, 2005-2006
• According to Cielito Habito, this is based on the new definition of unemployment which was introduced in 2005. Under the old definition, the current number of Filipinos unemployed is about 4 million.
• 7.47 million Filipinos are considered underemployed (or 13.4% of total labor force). Despite the slight improvement from 2006 to 2007, the average annual unemployment rate is still posted at 10.8%, just a little lower than the previous year at 11 percent. (NSO, 2005-
• 861,000 (NSO 2005-2006) jobs were created by the government at the end 2007 but revealed the following:
  142,000 household help or kasambahays
  116,000 in transport, storage and communication 111,000 in wholesale and retail trade o what we called the ambulant vendors
  103,000 construction workers
  34,000 in unpaid family labor
• Every Filipino owes about PhP 44,000.00. (Debt Quick Stats, Freedom from Debt Coalition)
• The total debt of the Philippines as of December 2006 is $118.19 billion.
• Debt service is allocated PhP612.8 Billion in the 2008 National Budget.
• 25 % of the Annual National Budget ends up in corruption. (PS Link)
  Philippines is the most corrupt in Asia (PERC, 2007)

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