Filipinos can’t keep up with prices as wages lag and government help falls short

ANALYSIS

Filipinos continue to struggle with the high cost of living as prices keep rising faster than what their incomes can keep up with.

News

Rising hardship exposes deep cracks in PH policies ahead of SONA

July 24, 2026

Bleak jobs situation bursts Marcos admin’s UMIC bubble – IBON

July 8, 2026

Higher prices for rice, LPG, electricity squeeze Filipino families

July 7, 2026

EPIRA has delivered profits for a few, not affordable power to Filipinos

July 3, 2026

Transport, consumer and rights groups call for people-centered mass transport ahead of SONA

July 1, 2026

Wage hike urgent as Filipino families struggle with high prices

June 30, 2026

Wrong diagnosis and policies won’t fix PH stagflation

June 29, 2026

WPN hits private firms’ impunity, backs growing calls to terminate PrimeWater deals

June 26, 2026

Features

The shiny cutting edge high-tech Pax Silica may indeed be different this time. Unfortunately, the way things are going, it will be different in the sense of a new level of dependence and making real Filipino industrialization even harder.

Pax Silica: Whose industrialization is it anyway?

August 12, 2026

Twenty-five years after EPIRA’s enactment, the country’s experience points to the need for a fundamentally different approach to the power sector.

EPIRA@25: Power reform failure

July 29, 2026

Through Pax Silica, the Marcos Jr administration allows the plunder of the country’s resources for fleeting cheap jobs and false promises of industrialization.

Pax Silica’s Cookie-Crumb Investments Will Not Feed the Philippines

July 29, 2026

The UMIC overhype shows how the government’s presentation of the economy gives disproportionate emphasis to a favorable statistical reclassification while giving comparatively little attention to the country’s persistent structural weaknesses.

Upper middle-income, Lower-end reality

July 6, 2026

The World Bank’s UMIC label should not be mistaken for proof that the country has achieved genuine development.

PH is upper middle-income, Filipinos aren’t

July 5, 2026

Mabigatan kaya si Rizal sa mga terminong ginagamit ko? Sasabihin kaya niya na masyado akong mateorya, puro slogan at jargon, at aktibistang parang polyeto magsalita? O susubukan niyang unawain ang mga sinabi ko para higit pang mapopularisa at maihatid sa mas malawak na masa?

Lumang Moda, Bagong Pagpapalala
Isang pag-uusap kay Rizal tungkol sa moda ng produksyon ng Pilipinas*

July 3, 2026

Resources

Apat na taon ni Marcos Jr: Ang Hindi Maikubling Krisis

July 29, 2026

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Controlling the Cure

June 30, 2026

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Birdtalk Briefing Paper

2026 Yearstarter: From frustration to action

February 24, 2026

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Nagsasapawang krisis, ang kawastuhan ng galit

February 3, 2026

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Urban Stories Ch2

January 7, 2026

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IBON on budget transparency

November 17, 2025

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Infographics

Borrow, Borrow More, as of June 2026

Infoposts

What the President should pay attention to: Fixing PH underdevelopment

Photoquotes

IBON Executive Director on the 5th SONA

Topics

Philippine Economy

International Relations

People Economics

Networks

Water for the People

Water for the People

Stop TRAIN Network

Stop TRAIN Network

SUKI Network

NO to KKLD

CPDG

POWER

Green Action Philippines

Green Action Philippines

AidWatch Philippines

AidWatch Philippines

Consumers International

Consumers International

Bantay Bigas

IPED EFD

AlterMidya Network

AlterMidya Network