Before P-NOY occupied Malacañang, the country's poverty incidence was 43 percent. Yet, despite the billions and billions of pesos poured into the government's Conditional Cash Transfer program, in the first quarter of 2012, 55 percent of Filipino families said that they were poor, compared to 45 percent in December 2011. Some 11.1 million families see themselves poorer in 2012 compared to 9.1 million in 2011. This only shows that temporary relief measures, including doles, cannot stamp out poverty and hunger.
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