Should middle class seethe over gov’t aid for poor during COVID19 crisis?
MANILA — A composite photo circulating on Facebook shows taxpayers settling with fried fish dunked in a bowl of clear soup, while the poor enjoy a more exquisite serving of crispy pork belly during the Luzon-wide quarantine.
Under the program, these families will receive between P5,000 and P8,000, with the amount computed based on regional wage. “You could have easily been on that side of the divide, so in terms of fairness and unifying the country, you give people a fair shot,” he said. “You give them an ability to break out of something that they did not create nor was their fault.”
It’s important to understand the different types of “middle class,” which made up 40 percent of the population as of 2015, in the Philippine context, he said.
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