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PH inflation highest in region; purchasing power not keeping up—IBON
July 6, 2023
NEWS
The Philippines has the highest inflation in Southeast Asia and Filipinos’ purchasing power is not keeping up.
Marcos Jr Administration Year One
July 4, 2023
The Marcos Jr government projected its first year as being full of sunshine. But this has failed to conceal the administration’s inaction and incapability to genuinely serve and keep its promises to the Filipino people.
Marcos Jr’s first year passes without a wage hike, while NCR hike in July still paltry — IBON
July 3, 2023
The Marcos Jr administration cannot tout the NCR wage hike as an additional accomplishment to report on its first year. The new NCR wage is still so much lower than demanded by workers, than the FLW for a more decent standard of living, and even less than the increase in worker productivity, and the plight of millions more low-income self-employed and other informal sector workers and unemployed Filipinos remains unaddressed.
Rights defenders urge the United Nations (UN) anew to investigate human rights violations amid worsening economic crisis
July 1, 2023
Delegation members of the Philippine Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Watch network are in Geneva to report continuing rights abuses and lack of accountability amid a worsening economic crisis under the first year of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s presidency.
Marcos Jr not a reform president—IBON
June 28, 2023
Already one year into office, Ferdinand Marcos Jr has failed to pursue reforms that have true development at heart.
IBON Poverty Wages Feature
June 25, 2023
Filipino workers and their families are barely surviving on the minimum wage because this is even less than the rather low-standard official poverty threshold for a family of five. In other words, Philippine minimum wages are family poverty wages.
Minimum wage vs family living wage per region as of May 2023
June 21, 2023
The minimum wage falls far behind the family living wage even with the decline in headline inflation for May, especially across regions. Substantial hikes are needed to close this gap so that Filipino workers and their families can meet their basic needs.
NCR family living wage as of May 2023
June 21, 2023
A minimum wage hike is just, urgent and doable as the current mandated minimum wage is not enough for Filipino workers and their families to meet their basic needs. In the NCR, the Php570 daily minimum wage is less than half or 49.1% of the Php1,160 family living wage for a family of five, as […]
