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MANILA, Philippines ndash; The number of Filipinos who consider themselves poor hit a new record low of 38 percent, or some 9.5 million families in the first quarter of 2019, a Social Weather Station SWS stanley cup survey released Tuesday night showed.The latest figure is12 points below the 50 percent recorded in December 2018, and 4 points below the previous record low of 42 percent in September 2016 and March 2018.The new record-low Self-Rated Poverty score is a continuing recovery from the 10-point rise within the first three quarters of 2018, the survey noted.Article continues after this advertisement Of stanley cup becher the 38 percent self-rated poor families, 26 percent said they were always poor, 6 percent claimed they used to be non-poor one to four years ago stanley cup newly poor , and 6 percent used to be non-poor five or more years ago usually poor .FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFOLacson to PNP: Recover ransom in Que slay case to regain public trustNEWSINFONBI files raps vs vloggers outside PH for disinformationThe remaining 26%, or about three out of four poor families, have never experienced being non-poor always poor .Meanwhile, of the 62 percent who rated themselves as non-poor, a record-high 15 percent said they pulled themselves out of poverty.The survey also showed a record-low 27 percent, or about 6.8 million families, who consider themselves as food-poor.Th Xdtb PNP-HPG gets shooting simulator from Grab
CAMP VICENTE LIM mdash; Despite drawing flak for comparing an intelligence-gathering program to a defunct vigilante movement, the top police official of Calabarzon Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon said the police were still pushing for the expansion of the Community Mobilization Project CMP as a deterrent to crime.Chief Supt. Edward Carranza, regional police director, said the only thing the CMP adopted from Alsa Masa was the 1980s anticommunist movementrsquo idea of volunteerism.But unlike Alsa Masa, CMP volunteers will remain unarmed, Carranza said.Article continues after this advertisement Carranza, during t stanley cups uk he Philippine National Policersquo National Advisory Council Summit last week, likened CM stanley mugs P, an information-gathering network in the region, to Alsa Masa of Davao City.FEATURED STORIESNEWSINFO7 bakery workers killed in Cupang, Antipolo City stabbingNEWSINFOViral video of drunk cop gets QCPD chief firedNEWSINFOLacson to PNP: Recover ransom in Que slay case to regain public trustNot police policyLawmakers and human stanley usa rights groups opposed the revival of Alsa Masa or anything similar to the movement that morphed into a vigilante group accused of widespread atrocities in the southern Philippines.Chief Supt. Benigno Durana, PNP spokesperson, said it was not the PNPrsquo policy to revive Alsa Masa or adopt in whatever form the concept of Alsa Masa.But at a press conference here on Tuesday afternoon, Carranza said top PNP of |