Advocacies
Gov’t anti-inflation measures not enough, leave many behind
November 16, 2023
Food insecurity in Southeast Asia
October 16, 2023
There are 50.9 million combined moderately and severely food insecure Filipinos making the Philippines the most food insecure country in Southeast Asia.
More part-timers, unpaid family workers underscores admin’s inability to create quality jobs – IBON
October 6, 2023
The millions-surge in informal work indicates that working Filipinos are going on survival mode as the living crisis intensifies. The Marcos Jr administration’s inability to improve the economy’s capacity to generate meaningful jobs is clearly a failure of policy and government’s economic management.
5 marks of a crumbling democracy
July 20, 2023
The Marcoses personify the worst aspects of Philippine politics. And Marcos Jr is levelling up these anti-democratic features in the 21st century.
Agriculture deserves a competent leader
July 1, 2023
The Marcos Jr administration has not been looking at the stark reality of long-term agricultural decline. This chronic crisis deserves a full-time, competent and diligent leader.
One year of BBM: More hype, less help
June 30, 2023
The Marcos Jr administration has profusely hyped its one year of achievements that have supposedly helped the Filipino people amid the economic crisis. But looking back, did the President really achieve that much and help the Filipino people as much as he claims?
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.
