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7,107 public health nurses ang nangangambang mawalan ng trabaho sa susunod na taon. Kasing dami ng mga isla sa ating kapuluan.  If not reversed, it will turn us into an archipelago of dismissed nurses. It is a kind of hospital discharge that is the most unkind.  This is

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.

Ang Health Facilities Enhancement Program (HFEP) ang gamot sa kulang at bulok na mga pasilidad sa mga pampublikong pagamutan. Sa taong kasalukuyan, ang budget ng HFEP ay P15.9 billion. Ngunit magkano ang nireseta ng DBM para sa HFEP sa 2020? P5.9 billion. Two-thirds ang kinaltas.

We have postponed the barangay elections six times since 1988. The proposed scrapping of the one scheduled in May 2020 will be the 7th. If it pushes through, it will be the 3rd under the Duterte administration, and the first three-peat of its kind in history. House and Senate

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

PMA cadets are “Iskolars ng Bayan” too, whose studies are shouldered by taxpayers. In fact, on a per student subsidy, they occupy the top tier in the country’s million-plus public college student population. Using the previous four years’ appropriations and reported number of

With the signing of the revised rules on GCTA, it is hoped that our Justice and prison officials will work overtime like elves in Santa’s workshop to bring the genuinely sick, infirm, old, terminally-ill prisoners home to their families this Christmas. The President is correct –