WITH so much reconstruction and rehabilitation tasks to be done, the government has not seen to harnessing idle or untapped manpower in areas harrowed by calamities.

Calamities ought not to be another lame excuse nor convenient scapegoat of Malacañang to explain why 12.1 million Filipinos are jobless, an official of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) said on Tuesday.

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