A visual evolution of the pork barrel

Editor's Note: Reina Reyes, a Filipina scientist, made this unofficial visual guide to the history of the congressional pork barrel based on, and as a companion to, Prof. Solita Collas-Monsod's column on the Philippine Daily Inquirer's site "A story of greed and abuse of power", published on September 13. 

 

It takes the figures contained in Prof. Monsod's article and processes it into an infographic for a clearer look at PDAF in a “by the numbers” context. – KDM, GMA News

 

 
 

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Reina Reyes studied Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University and is a post-doctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago. This visual originally appeared on her Facebook account. We are re-posting it here with her permission.