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		<title>Skype Brings OFW Families Together at Noche Buena</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 22:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>SWS: 52% of Pinoy Families Consider Themselves &#8216;Poor&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More Filipino families, roughly 10.4 million (or about 52 percent), consider themselves as &#8220;poor&#8221; and &#8220;food poor,&#8221; a new survey by pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed. Both the poverty... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.pinoy-ofw.com/news/18169-sws-more-pinoy-families-poor.html">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>OFW Accused of Abandoning Family Arrested at Airport</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>OWWA Honors Cordillera Model OFW Families</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:45:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>UNICEF: Only 34% of Filipino Mothers Breastfeed Babies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>More OFW Families Move up to Middle Class: Survey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 00:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>OFW Families Better Off Now as They Invest, Save More</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Leyte Gov Carlos Jericho L. Petilla Hails Model OFW Families</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:35:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Encourage Kids to Save Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 05:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habits, good or bad, truly start young. In an effort to teach children the importance of money management, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) and partner institutions have embarked on... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.pinoy-ofw.com/news/17134-encourage-kids-save-money.html">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fewer OFW Families Saving Amid Low Remittance Rates</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BECAUSE of the strong peso, fewer families who are receiving remittances from overseas are allocating a portion into savings. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) reported that the percentage of... <a class="meta-more" href="http://www.pinoy-ofw.com/news/17029-ofw-families-saving-exchange-rates.html">Read more <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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