THE purchasing power of the daily take home pay of some four million minimum wage earners in the National Capital Region (NCR) and elsewhere in the country is no longer sufficient to support a family amid rising costs of goods and of services, according to a research group.
Citing figures from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), independent think-tank IBON Foundation said that as of March 2018, the inflation rate reached 5.2 percent, so far the highest in the last five years.
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