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Since the time we approved this bill on second reading last week, there have been 1786 vehicular accidents – in Metro Manila alone. Of this, 282 were injuries, and about five were fatalities. We extrapolated this from last year’s data. It is safe to assume that the ones for this

While every literature states that P4.1 trillion is the national budget for 2020, in reality, it is not. The real amount is P4,316.3 trillion, P216.3 billion higher than what is commonly stated. The P216.3 billion represents the Unprogrammed Appropriations (UA). While the release

DepEd’s school-building budget for 2020 should be augmented in the light of the damage sustained by the 500 classrooms and 700 school buildings during last month’s earthquakes in Southern Mindanao. Congress cannot be impervious to a tragedy which threatens the schooling of

The Senate should conduct its own post-earthquake assessment – to find out if the Calamity Fund in this year’s budget and the one for next year is enough to help the people and places hit by the recent Southern Mindanao earthquakes. We should conduct an inventory of funds. There

Increasing their annual “chalk allowance” should be part of a package of amelioration measures for our public school teachers. The package should include a pay raise, an increase in their clothing allowance, a hike in chalk allowance, the creation of higher ranks, and increasing

Nearly 772,000 public teachers are faced with a career roadblock because of a curable problem in the DepEd plantilla system. Many are stranded for years, or even forever, in deadend positions where promotion is delayed or impossible because of missing rungs in the DepEd career

Delikadong ma-endo ang pag-aaral ng daan-daang libong mga estudyante sa kolehiyo kung matutuloy ang balak na tapyasan ng P11.6 bilyon ang budget ng Commission on Higher Education (CHED) para sa taong 2020. Instead of diplomas, government will be handing out dismissal slips. The

Funding for the Philippine General Hospital is the national barometer of our health priorities. It is the national hospital, so the money it gets from the government reflects the importance government gives to health. But for 2020, PGH will be getting a P456 million budget cut.

The Department of Health and PhilHealth should not be begging for funds. They should automatically be getting what is due them from the TRAIN Law. But for 2020, the two agencies’ sin tax dividends are P28.3 billion short of what Republic Act 11346 guarantees. This results in

Malacañang plans to buy P19.1 billion worth of drugs and vaccines in 2020 and will send 80 percent of these to provinces, Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto said. Recto said the “purchase order” is contained in President Duterte’s 36-page Budget Message for 2020, which