NCR Family Living Wage, as of December 2024

January 9, 2025

Filipino workers struggling despite reported drop in unemployment, underemployment — IBON

January 8, 2025

The decline in unemployment and underemployment should be a positive development, but it seems that millions of Filipinos are still not feeling the benefits of a “robust” labor market.

Consumers still hurting from high prices even if inflation targets met

January 7, 2025

Latest inflation figures are within the Marcos administration’s 2-4% target for 2024, but this doesn’t automatically translate into better living conditions for Filipinos whose real incomes are stagnating or falling.

About the recently-enacted 2025 national government budget

December 31, 2024

Pres. Marcos Jr said that the newly signed General Appropriations Act for 2025 reflects the government’s commitment to “[transform] economic gains into meaningful outcomes for every Filipino.” The Php6.326-trillion national budget however only reinforces the country’s undemocratic politics and inequitable economy. It still has hundreds of billions of pesos for pork barrel projects, confidential and […]

IBON Executive Director Sonny Africa on enacted 2025 national government budget

December 31, 2024

The people have to beg and struggle for every precious peso for education, health, housing and ayuda that they’re entitled to as a matter of right, and that the government should give as a matter of obligation

NCR Family Living Wage, as of November 2024

December 18, 2024

Minimum Wage and Family Living Wage Per Region, as of November 2024

December 18, 2024

IBON forum: People’s pressure crucial to hold erring public officials accountable

December 15, 2024

The move to impeach Sara Duterte should not be trivialized as just the falling-out of the Marcos and Duterte camps, but as a serious effort by Filipinos to collectively hold corrupt bureaucrats answerable. They agreed on the need for more forums and mobilizations to strengthen people’s solidarity on the impeachment move.

Urban Stories Ch1

December 12, 2024

IBON’s Urban Stories is a cursory scoping of specific urbanization issues, such as land reclamation and conversion, demolition of slums and remaining farms, and overall displacement of the poor. Using life stories as methodology, the main aims of the IBON Urban Stories are: to highlight how the urban population are affected and how they deal with these issues; to identify the policies that facilitate these issues; to reveal who actually benefits from so-called urban development; and to show how specific citizens campaigns have amplified and confronted these issues. The main basis for IBON’s choice of which stories to highlight is that the communities have ongoing resistance and struggles and are reaching out for multisectoral support.