ACCORDING to the latest installment of a regularly conducted survey by the Ibon Foundation, five years of the Aquino Administration’s “straight path” has hardly dented the persistence of poverty in the Philippines.

The survey, which the group reports was conducted among nearly 1,500 families across the country in mid-May, reveals that 67 percent of the respondents – 2 out of every 3 people – consider themselves “poor.” About 24 percent consider themselves “not poor,” while a little less than 10 percent were either unsure or offered no response.

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