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  1. Cakes, doles, disconnect

    Cakes, doles, disconnect

    Like the supposed response of French aristocracy to a hungry populace, the criticism is that cash handouts highlight the disconnect between those in power and…

  2. Hope on hold AKAP, short for Ayuda para sa Kapos ang Kita Program, faces zero allocation in the proposed 2026 budget, leaving countless local governments and community projects high and dry. In this file photo from last December, residents of Baseco, Manila, start lining up before sunrise at Benigno Aquino Elementary School, braving the morning chill and long queues for confiscated frozen mackerel distributed by authorities — a small taste of aid that AKAP would have helped sustain.

    The poverty industry

    Anything less isn’t poverty alleviation but poverty management — and managing poverty is just a fancy way of accepting it.