The recent Social Weather Stations (SWS) report on Self-Rated Poverty in June 2023—'Social Weather Report: 45% of Filipino families feel Poor, down from 51% in March; 33% feel Borderline, and 22% feel Not Poor,' www.sws.org.ph, 7/23/23—was coincidentally released just before the annual State of the Nation Address (Sona). Self-Rated Poverty (SRP) is one of the core indicators of human well-being that SWS includes in its own-account national surveys on a quarterly basis. These indicators are for everyone in general, not for the government in particular.

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