Kabataan Partylist Representative Raymond ‘Mong’ Palatino today urged presidential candidates to provide a clear and categorical platform on how to resolve the rising unemployment rate as 550,000 new graduates are expected to enter the work force this summer.
Palatino raised the alarm following independent think-tank Ibon Foundation’s study stating that only three out of 10 fresh graduates will be able to find jobs.
“We fear that most of our new graduates will be joining the 3 million jobless Filipinos if the next government does not make …

Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond “Mong” Palatino today demanded an explanation from the Commission on Elections (Comelec) after receiving complaints that names of first-time-voters who registered during the voter registration extension period are not included in the official list of voters for the May polls.
Palatino said that they have so far received reports from Quezon City.  Complainants were alarmed when they found out that they are not included in the official list because they are considered “supplement voters.”
“Does this mean that they are not ensured of their right to vote on …

March 31, 2010
PRESS STATEMENT
Reference:
Donna Pascual, PUP Student Regent, 0923-9708549

Students have rightful claim to victory over tuition hike
Donna Pascual, Student Regent, Polytechnic University of the Philippines
The Polytechnic University of the Philippines (PUP) community congratulates our Iskolars ng Bayan for successfully stopping the proposed 1,700 percent tuition hike in the university.  We have proven once again that only through unity, militancy and collective action can we triumph over attempts to strip us of our right to education and academic freedom.
That PUP President Dante Guevarra, along with Commission on Higher Education Chairman Emmanuel …