High time to end privatization behind high fees – SUKI

July 3, 2025

For years, privatization through government’s profit-driven PPPs have burdened the public with high user fees.

Php50 NCR wage hike token giveaway, not enough for Filipinos’ basic needs

July 1, 2025

NEWS

The Marcos Jr administration on its 3rd year is using token wage hikes as a giveaway to boost its image, not to give much-needed relief to struggling Filipino workers.

Marcos Jr government rightly called out at UN for its human rights abuses

June 18, 2025

STATEMENT

The Marcos Jr administration is getting the international attention it deserves. Despite human rights posturing, it is a serial violator like the Duterte government before it.

Impunity and underdevelopment under Marcos Jr

June 14, 2025

When populists take power, the people become fodder for self-serving ambition, and our goals for development and human rights are, at best, afterthoughts. At worst, they’re trampled on for being inconvenient obstacles to personal wealth and power. The spectacle of political theater and intentional delay of the vice-president’s impeachment trial in the Senate confirms institutional […]

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.

IBON hits limited BBM Na! program

May 23, 2025

The BBM Na! program smacks of insincerity. It rations rice to poor households, scrimps on funding, and leaves out millions who also struggle to afford food.  This is far from the sweeping effort needed to make Php20 rice a reality and is just a public relations gimmick dressed up as policy.

Bolder solutions needed for faster economic growth – IBON

May 14, 2025

The Marcos administration’s top priority post elections of hitting its 6.0% economic growth target for 2025 by achieving 6.2% growth rate for the remaining quarters of the year is absurd

Falling employment, higher underemployment signs of unsolved PH jobs crisis-IBON

May 8, 2025

The rise in underemployment reflects the unresolved jobs crisis where existing jobs pay poorly.