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// November 18, 2020
NOV
18
2020

DSWD should “play Santa and distribute P80 B worth of undisbursed aid.”

With 7 weeks left in the year, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto is pressing DSWD “to act like a Santa Claus on overdrive” and quickly disburse some P80 billion remaining in its 2020 budget, prioritizing victims of the three typhoons which have devastated a wide swath of
NOV
18
2020

Not defund, but more funds for SUCs, especially UP’s PGH

No state university or college should get a budget cut. The amount in the proposed budget should be retained, and will be benchmarked as the floor, meaning it can still be increased. Calls for academic freeze will not be met with a funding brake. The correct response is not to