{"id":8683,"date":"2016-10-18T15:52:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=8683"},"modified":"2016-10-18T15:58:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T07:58:55","slug":"work-pay-tops-most-urgent-concern-of-filipinos-pulse-asia-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/10\/18\/work-pay-tops-most-urgent-concern-of-filipinos-pulse-asia-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Work Pay\u2019 tops most urgent concern of Filipinos\u2014survey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-8685\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/job-fair-1.jpg\" alt=\"job-fair\" width=\"722\" height=\"481\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Image grabbed from ABS-CBN news<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">According to a new survey conducted by Pulse Asia, a public opinion polling body in the Philippines, increasing the salary of the workers still tops the most urgent concern of the Filipinos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The poll, which was conducted from September\u00a0 25 to October 1, shows that most Filipinos regards increasing of salary and generating more jobs as the most urgent national issues that the government must address with 46% and 38% respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The results of the survey, which was released on Monday (October 17), also shows that other national concerns deemed urgent by Filipinos include promoting peace in the country (20%), enforcing the rule of law (14%), reducing the amount of taxes paid by citizens (12%), protecting the environment (10%), controlling rapid population growth (9%) and protecting the welfare of overseas Filipino workers (8%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">In contrast, Filipinos are least concerned about terrorism (5%), national territorial integrity (5%) and Charter Change or Constitutional Reform (2%).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/headlines\/2016\/10\/18\/1634721\/salaries-jobs-prices-top-pinoy-concerns-pulse\">Philippine Star<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulseasia.ph\/salaries-jobs-prices-top-pinoy-concerns-pulse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pulse Asia<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new survey conducted by Pulse Asia, a public opinion polling body in the Philippines, increasing the salary of the workers still tops the most urgent concern of the Filipinos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/10\/job-fair-1-e1476777137872.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8708,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8683\/revisions\/8708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}