Covid, hunger, joblessness are problems, not ‘oligarchs’- Pangilinan

Covid, hunger, joblessness are problems, not ‘oligarchs’- Pangilinan

“Gawa-gawa lang yang problema ng mga oligarchs. Walang kinalaman ang pagsasara ng ABS-CBN sa matinding problema dulot ng COVID. Inimbento lang ang problema na oligarchs para linlangin ang taumbayan dahil sa totoo lang, wala silang maipakitang ni katiting na magandang resulta sa pagsugpo sa lalo pang kumakalat na COVID, sa gutom at sa kawalan ng trabaho ng milyun-milyon nating mga kababayan.”

Bello: PSA jobless data not ‘factual’; only 69K Filipinos unemployed

Bello: PSA jobless data not ‘factual’; only 69K Filipinos unemployed

The official definition of being “employed” is actually broad. It means a person has work and has done “any work even for one hour during the reference period for pay or profit, or work without pay on the farm or business enterprise operated by a member of the same household related by blood, marriage, or adoption.”