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RA 7077's full implementation seen to reinforce ROTC bill

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Senators see Republic Act (RA) 7077 or the Citizen Armed Forces of the Philippines Reservist Act will ensure all Filipino students will be covered by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) bill that is currently being pushed in the Senate.

This, after it was raised during a hearing on Wednesday by the Senate Sub-committee on Revitalized ROTC Act that students, who are taking up less than two years vocational courses or those who decided to work immediately after finishing senior high school, will not be able to join the ROTC training.

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Social inequality

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The big inequality debate: can our system work for richer and for poorer? |  Working in development | The Guardian

Social inequality occurs when resources in a given society are distributed unevenly, typically through norms of allocation, that engender specific patterns along lines of socially defined categories of persons. It posses and creates gender cap between individuals that limits the accessibility that women have within society. the differentiation preference of access of social goods in the society brought about by power, religion, kinship, prestige, race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, and class. Social inequality

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Past Perceptions of Social Inequality in the Philippines

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A game changer - corporate responsibility in the age of extreme inequality  | Oxfam

There are several types of social inequality in the Philippines. There is inequality based upon ethnicity, gender, land ownership, linguistic ability, and religious affiliation. However, by far the most blatant, pervasive, and important type of inequality is that described as class stratification. Class stratification enters into all interpersonal relations, economic arrangements, and political leadership.

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