Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos on Friday bewailed the marginalization of farmers and fishermen in the government’s multi-billion-peso Pantawid Pamilya Program. “Many of our farmers and fisherfolk are not included in the barangay lists of Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program [4Ps] recipients even if they are the poorest of the poor because they reside in far flung communities hardly reached by welfare programs and are rarely visited by government social workers,” said Marcos, the only local executive running for senator in next year’s midterm elections. The 4Ps is a human development measure of the national government that provides conditional cash […]
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