POVERTY IN THE PHILIPPINES

In almost all of the places in the Philippines today, inequality—the gap between the rich and the poor—is quite high and often widening. Poverty has always been present. It is one of the biggest and most evident problems in the Philippines. Poverty is the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support. (Merriam Webster Dictionary, n.d.) Poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge.