(Eagle News)–Forty-five percent of families consider themselves as poor, a recent Social Weather Stations survey found. The SWS said this was up by 7 percentage points from the record-low 38%, or an estimated 9.5 million families in March 2019. The pollster said rise in the proportion of Self-Rated Poor families comes after a 14-point decline over the previous three quarters. According to the SWS, the June 2019 survey also found that 35 percent of families, […]





