AN independent research group on Friday came to defend the demand of the workers of Marikina City to raise their daily take home pay by P750, stressing that the businessmen can afford to give such amount and still continue to get huge profits.

Ibon Foundation said all the capitalists in the country can give the P750 increase on the daily rate of the workers nationwide from the prevailing P481 per day since they have been getting very huge profits.

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