{"id":1020,"date":"2009-02-12T07:40:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T12:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/2009\/02\/12\/shovel-ready-projects-for-filipino-stimulus-jobless-filipinos-to-plant-trees-inquirernet-philippine-news-for-filipinos\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T07:40:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T12:40:47","slug":"shovel-ready-projects-for-filipino-stimulus-jobless-filipinos-to-plant-trees-inquirernet-philippine-news-for-filipinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/12\/shovel-ready-projects-for-filipino-stimulus-jobless-filipinos-to-plant-trees-inquirernet-philippine-news-for-filipinos\/","title":{"rendered":"-Shovel Ready Projects For Filipino Stimulus-Jobless Filipinos to plant trees &#8211; INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>some caveats:<br \/>\nThis type of stimulus is actually more of a way to help the poorest of the poor survive. A way to transfer necessary cash so the super below poverty line people have a way to feed themselves. This makes me think that it is more aptly called a poverty aleviation stopgap.<br \/>\nThe AFP called the government department, ministries. This probably means that the editor\/copy editor\/proof reader forgot that this is going to be read by filipinos. If they were aiming for a more International bent and that caused them to change departments to ministry, I feel that they should not have.<br \/>\nThe environmentalist in me is very happy!<br \/>\nThe realist fears most money would go to corruption.<br \/>\nJobless Filipinos to plant trees<br \/>\nAgence France-Presse<br \/>\nFirst Posted 19:54:00 02\/12\/2009<br \/>\nFiled Under: Unemployment, Forest and forest management, Environmental Issues<br \/>\nMANILA, Philippines\u2014President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is to pay 180,000 people to plant trees across the archipelago as part of efforts to ease the fallout from the global economic meltdown, the government said Thursday.<br \/>\nThe P7 billion ($148.7 million) program, to be put in place over the next six months, will be funded by government ministries, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita told reporters.<br \/>\nMore than 15,000 people have lost their jobs in the Philippines over the past two months, mostly in the crucial electronics and garments sectors, amid plunging demand for Filipino exports.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/breakingnews\/nation\/view\/20090212-188963\/Jobless-Filipinos-to-plant-trees\">Jobless Filipinos to plant trees &#8211; INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>some caveats: This type of stimulus is actually more of a way to help the poorest of the poor survive. A way to transfer necessary cash so the super below poverty line people have a way to feed themselves. This makes me think that it is more aptly called a poverty aleviation stopgap. The AFP &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/12\/shovel-ready-projects-for-filipino-stimulus-jobless-filipinos-to-plant-trees-inquirernet-philippine-news-for-filipinos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;-Shovel Ready Projects For Filipino Stimulus-Jobless Filipinos to plant trees &#8211; INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,66,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-politics","category-poverty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}