Govt food program helped bring down rice prices despite inflation uptick
Albay 2nd District Rep. Joey Salceda, chairman of the House of Representatives' ways and means committee, says on Jan. 7, 2025, that the 'Murang Pagkain' Superpanel helped bring down rice prices in the country despite the slight increase in inflation rate. The Philippine Statistics Authority said that the headline inflation rate in Dec 2024 increased to 2.9 percent.
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