Tuesday, July 21, 2026

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Poverty Forced Children To Work

LIFE in the Philippines is not getting any better — and kids as young as five years old must have realized that working is the only way they could survive. Based on data released by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the number of working children, aged five to 17 years old, has been increasing on an annual basis. According to the PSA, the estimated number of working children stood at a staggering 868,540 in 2025, surpassing 861,450 working kids recorded in...
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