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    Poverty remains a significant challenge in the Philippines, where over 6 in 10 people live below the poverty line. A lack of employment opportunities and access to education and nutrition especially in rural areas have contributed to ongoing poverty. While statistics show poverty rates have declined in recent years, daily life for many Filipinos in poverty remains a struggle to find enough money for food and avoid sickness. Children are often forced to work to help support the family instead of attending school. The relationship between poverty and crime is also intimate, as some resort to theft out of desperation when unable to find jobs or support from the government. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to exacerbate poverty levels further.

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    Poverty remains a significant challenge in the Philippines, where over 6 in 10 people live below the poverty line. A lack of employment opportunities and access to education and nutrition especially in rural areas have contributed to ongoing poverty. While statistics show poverty rates have declined in recent years, daily life for many Filipinos in poverty remains a struggle to find enough money for food and avoid sickness. Children are often forced to work to help support the family instead of attending school. The relationship between poverty and crime is also intimate, as some resort to theft out of desperation when unable to find jobs or support from the government. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to exacerbate poverty levels further.

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    Poverty remains a significant challenge in the Philippines, where over 6 in 10 people live below the poverty line. A lack of employment opportunities and access to education and nutrition especially in rural areas have contributed to ongoing poverty. While statistics show poverty rates have declined in recent years, daily life for many Filipinos in poverty remains a struggle to find enough money for food and avoid sickness. Children are often forced to work to help support the family instead of attending school. The relationship between poverty and crime is also intimate, as some resort to theft out of desperation when unable to find jobs or support from the government. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to exacerbate poverty levels further.

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    Angel Khaille L. Saguban - Final Task

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    Poverty remains a significant challenge in the Philippines, where over 6 in 10 people live below the poverty line. A lack of employment opportunities and access to education and nutrition especially in rural areas have contributed to ongoing poverty. While statistics show poverty rates have declined in recent years, daily life for many Filipinos in poverty remains a struggle to find enough money for food and avoid sickness. Children are often forced to work to help support the family instead of attending school. The relationship between poverty and crime is also intimate, as some resort to theft out of desperation when unable to find jobs or support from the government. The COVID-19 pandemic threatens to exacerbate poverty levels further.

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    Poverty in the Philippines

    Majority of Filipinos are considered poor. Based on a study, 6 out of 10 Filipinos live
    below the poverty line. There is severe shortage of employment opportunities,
    education, and even proper nutrition especially in the rural areas (Ronquillo et. al). The
    World Banks has estimated the Philippine’s poverty incidence at 23.1 % in 2017 and
    21.9 % in 2018. In its latest report, the World Bank saw the poverty in rate in the
    Philippines further declining to 19.8 % in 2020 and 18.7 % in 2021. Regardless of what
    statistics says, poverty in the Philippines remains a challenge. Hunger is one of the
    many extreme effects of poverty in the Philippines. When your income level is below the
    poverty line, you struggle to ensure your children and their survival. For many people,
    the daily task is to merely find enough money to provide food to stay alive for the day
    and to keep praying that sickness could only pass them by. Rice used to be the main
    source of food for Filipinos but now it has largely been replaced with processed foods.
    As a result, malnutrition has become a lot more common. According to a study by Cruz
    on 2019, the poor seem to have the highest fertility rates and the greatest number of
    children to support. With this, many Filipinos are unable to afford housing which
    inevitably puts them in the streets for accommodation. With conditions so troublesome,
    people often result to robbery to survive. Research has found that one of the many
    reasons to steal is due to difficulties caused by poverty in our daily lives. This is
    because it is easier for them to steal or than to find a job. No proper employment nor
    enough support our government, people turn to stealing to survive. There are just too
    many people with very limited resources. People hence become desperate and practice
    drastic measures to provide for themselves and their families.
    With poverty, children are also taken out of school even at an early age to work in harsh
    conditions. Statistics show that around 3.6 million children, from ages 5-17 are child
    laborers in the Philippines – which about 15.9 % of the entire population. Poverty and
    crime have a very intimate relationship – the UN and the World Bank has recognized
    the country with a high crime rate and is trying to deal with these obstacles for the
    country’s development.
    Recently, the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) predicts that over 200
    million people worldwide will lose access to basic food and nutrition in the coming
    months due to the pandemic. The poverty figure could go even higher if we consider the
    official national food threshold. This is on top of the more than 800 million people who
    have experienced food crisis even before the pandemic. The most affected, they said,
    will be poor and marginalized populations – the Philippines will not be exempt from its
    effects despite the decrease in poverty line for the past years.

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