It took a long time coming—almost 17 years since it was specified in Sec. 32 of the Philippine Nursing Act of 2002—but the country’s nurses finally got what they deserve to get: a definitive mandate for decent compensation commensurate to the knowledge, skills and hours that they put into their job. Last week, the Supreme Court ruled that the base pay of entry-level nurses should be no lower than Salary Grade 15, which is equivalent to
The Philippine Statistics Authority’s new poverty report (https://psa.gov.ph/ poverty-press-releases/nid/138411) is based on the first stage of the 2018 Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES), which took a gigantic sample of 180,000 households, to provide estimates for provinces and some cities and city clusters. The first stage was done in July 2018,
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