IBON Foundation

Half-million drop in manufacturing: Jobs crisis highlights urgency of Filipino industrialization – IBON

June 8, 2025

Despite government claims of job resilience, research group IBON said that the country’s jobs crisis persists with significant manufacturing losses and worsening quality of work. The year-on-year increase in unemployed and underemployed Filipinos, lack of decent work, and huge drop in manufacturing jobs underscore the urgent need for a serious national industrialization strategy to create […]

Historic legislated wage hike can be first step to family living wage nationwide

June 5, 2025

NEWS

The 19th Congress passing a legislated minimum wage hike between Php100 and 200 are important first steps towards a family living wage nationwide.

Limited BBM Na! Program

May 28, 2025

The Benteng Bigas Meron Na! program aims to provide Php20/kl rice to 2 million households until Dec 2025. But its scrimped budget of Php4.5 billion can only provide for not even a million households, still leaving so many behind. Related: IBON hits limited BBM Na! program