In his fifth SONA to date, President Benigno S. Aquino III talked about the various successes of the government under his administration regarding education, social services, economy, infrastructure, calamity efforts, jobs, rehabilitation after typhoons and earthquake, and etc. He mentioned that around P1.6B was given to Training-for-Work Scholarship Program of TESDA. The Expanded Conditional Cash Transfer program with a budget of 12.3 billion pesos has been launched June this year too. He also boasted about being able to bring down the poverty incidence to 24.9% in the first quarter of 2013.
Moreover, the collection of taxes and management of the country's debts were improved as well as the Philippines being given the investment grade. The budget for infrastructure has also doubled and corruption in infrastructure has been cut down.
President Aquino then boasted about the rehabilitation efforts for the recent calamities and that AFP modernization will continue as the government is aiming to have quality defense and security systems.
PNoy then promised:
- A Laguna Lakeshore Expressway Dike by the end of 2014
- Alternative Roads to EDSA
- Busuanga Airport
- Bangsamoro Basic Law
- Enough Supply of Power to meet the growing demand
- 2.606 trillion National Budget for 2015
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