The number of Filipinos living in poverty has increased in the past six years, proof that the Aquino administration failed to uplift the lives of the poor, the camp of Vice President Jejomar Binay said Thursday.

“There are more Filipinos now who describe themselves as poor compared to the beginning of the Aquino administration,” Joey Salgado, Media Affairs chief of the Office of the Vice President (OVP), said as he compared the latest survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) on self-rated poverty to the Third Quarter 2010 survey.

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