Related Report on Other Disadvantaged Group/Sectors of Our Society Like Low Salaried Workers, Workers W/ No Owned Housing Facilities Etc.
First of all let us talk about the disadvantaged group. Mostly these are the people within the urban poor communities. They are the ones who cannot even attain the lowest daily cost of living. These are the group of our society in which they complain the government for being poor. Poverty is worse in rural areas (with 53 percent of families below the poverty line) because economic opportunities have been scarce. But the urban poor (who are 23 percent of urban families) suffer especially from the low quality of life induced by environmental pollution, congestion, and violence. As long as job growth remains higher in urban areas, migration from rural to urban areas will continually reinforce the ranks of the urban poor. Elderly and female headed households do not suffer high rates of poverty in the Philippines, in striking contrast to other developing countries, because households tend to be extended, with multiple income earners. The poor everywhere suffer from the declining quality of primary education. In rural areas, access to education and to health is limited severely by poor roads and other physical infrastructure. Recent issues in the country regarding the disadvantaged groups are the housing facilities. There are a lot of individuals who are living in certain locations in which they do not own. These locations are privately owned but not established yet or properties that the government owns. In this regard, individuals and families are forced out from these locations and will be transferred to a housing location specifically allocated for them. Even though this type of bargaining by the government is most likely in favor to some, it is still unfavorable to most because the location will be far and their current employment status maybe somehow affected. Others state that the location will be isolated that they are far from the civilization or from the cities nearby. When it was revealed that the government would be handing out ₱18,000 as "relocation fee" to