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Underperforming PhilHealth favored over public services in gov’t health budget – IBON
September 21, 2022
The Marcos Jr administration’s proposed 2023 budget neglects direct health services and programs that are accessible for ordinary Filipinos. Instead, it’s choosing to allot even more funds for health privatization and the underperforming PhilHealth.
Multi-layered prison walls, then and now
September 13, 2022
Political detention today is indeed very much a continuation and symptom of social and economic deterioration accelerated by Marcos’ elitist neoliberal governance in the ’70s and ’80s. The struggle of various people’s organizations and advocates then continues today in battles on the streets and legislative halls and in the cities and the countryside.
Films remind that woes started by Marcos Sr are far from over – IBON
September 12, 2022
The AsiaVisions films are important to preserve Filipinos’ collective memory and fight historical distortions, as well as to remind that Marcos dictatorship-era social and economic problems continue to this day.
Hike ayuda and labor budgets amid over 20M in informal work — IBON
September 8, 2022
More and more Filipinos are forced to make do with informal work given the lack of better jobs. Yet, the Marcos Jr administration has cut the 2023 budgets for ayuda and labor.
High inflation confirms urgent need for real ayuda
September 8, 2022
Prices remain high, while ayuda has been slow, lacking and limited to only a few recipients. More increases are projected–it is insensitive and neglectful of the Marcos administration to make huge cuts in the ayuda budget.
IBON: Ayuda budgets slashed amid false claims of recovery
August 27, 2022
The Marcos Jr administration’s 2023 proposed national budget defunds social protection even if millions still suffer the aftershocks of the government’s harsh pandemic lockdowns and as economic rebound fades.
Invisible poverty, trivial solutions
August 22, 2022
The most fundamental cause of poverty is in how the overwhelming majority of Filipinos only have low value-added and low productivity work. This is not for lack of individual effort or capacity but because of the structure of the economy distorted by neoliberal policies.
Wow high-end!
August 16, 2022
Sa ginawang pagbili ng DepEd sa mga Celeron laptop, mistulang kinukutya at pinagmukhang kaawa-awa ang mga guro dahil halos hindi na nila ito mapapakinabangan dahil sa bagal nito at kalumaan ng processor na ginagamit nito.
Recovery stalls with Q2 GDP quarter-to-quarter contraction — IBON
August 11, 2022
Contrary to the new economic team’s hype, research group IBON said that the quarter-on-quarter contraction of the economy in the second quarter of 2022 shows that recovery remains weak and requires more determined government action. IBON said that reopening the economy is not enough because too many Filipinos are still jobless, earn too little, and […]
