• last year
Unang Balita is the news segment of GMA Network's daily morning program, Unang Hirit. It's anchored by Arnold Clavio, Susan Enriquez, Ivan Mayrina, and Mariz Umali, and airs on GMA-7 Mondays to Fridays at 5:30 AM (PHL Time). For more videos from Unang Balita, visit http://www.gmanetwork.com/unangbalita.

#GMAIntegratedNews #KapusoStream

Breaking news and stories from the Philippines and abroad:
GMA Integrated News Portal: http://www.gmanews.tv
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gmanews
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@gmanews
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/gmanews
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/gmanews

GMA Network Kapuso programs on GMA Pinoy TV: https://gmapinoytv.com/subscribe
Transcript
00:00 In other news, according to the Massa Survey of OCTA Research, the number of Filipino families who are considered poor is increasing.
00:09 According to the local government, we have live news with James Agustin.
00:14 James!
00:16 Good morning. There are more Filipino families who said they are poor if we will close the survey of a group in the second quarter of the year.
00:28 Igan, some of our fellow Filipinos who I know and talked to here in Nia Road in Quezon City believe that.
00:34 Edgardo says that they feel that their life is getting harder in the past few months.
00:42 In the few hours of walking through the garbage, he is lucky to be able to bring home P200.
00:47 It's really hard. Before, it's not like that.
00:50 We are just poor.
00:53 It's expensive to buy. We are just poor. We are just poor.
01:02 They have been living on the side of the road for a few months because they cannot pay the rent.
01:09 We left. We were not allowed to go down.
01:13 Because?
01:14 We don't have money to pay.
01:16 He is with Karen Todo Baje so that they can eat three times a day.
01:21 We just buy vegetables.
01:24 We just go down here.
01:27 Nancy has been pushing her cart since early morning.
01:31 She quickly set up her stall on the bench, bringing her eggs, bananas and wood chips.
01:37 She earns almost P300.
01:40 She still lacks money to buy food because of the high price she is paying now.
01:43 It's expensive. I cannot afford it.
01:47 We are just discarding it.
01:51 We are just saving rice. It's P57.
01:54 We are just eating once a day.
01:57 It's a priority for the kids to go to school. They have their own children.
02:00 The results of the Octa Research Group's second quarter survey show
02:04 that the number of Filipinos who claim that they consider their family poor is higher.
02:09 It's 50 percent or equivalent to 13.4 million families.
02:14 It's higher than 43 percent in the first quarter of the year or 11.3 million families.
02:20 Nine percent said that they are not poor.
02:23 41 percent said that they are not poor.
02:27 In the same survey, 15 percent or equivalent to 3.9 million families experienced starvation.
02:33 It's almost the same as the results in the first quarter of the year.
02:37 Despite their poverty, Edgardo and Nancy are working hard.
02:41 They are working hard to earn a living.
02:46 I have hope. I will just work hard.
02:49 I think it's positive.
02:51 I hope that I will live.
02:54 Even if life is not hard, if you don't find a way, your life will be harder.
03:02 You have to work hard.
03:09 The survey was conducted in July and it had 1,200 respondents.
03:16 The margin of error of this survey is plus or minus 3 percent.
03:19 That is the first news.
03:20 From Quezon City, I am James Agustin for GMA Integrated News.
03:25 For the latest news, subscribe to GMA Integrated News on YouTube.
03:30 For those who are abroad, follow us on GMA Pinoy TV and www.gmanews.tv.
03:38 [♪♪♪]
03:41 [♪♪♪]
03:44 [♪♪♪]
03:47 (upbeat music)

Recommended