Marcos opts for easy power relief over real electricity reform—IBON

September 17, 2026

Genuinely bringing down electricity costs requires deeper structural reforms.

MTerra: The dark side of solar farm projects

September 16, 2026

For all its promises of clean energy transition, the MTerra Solar Project exposes where the government’s priorities lie: not with the farmers who feed the nation.

More youth seeking work, but jobs fall short—IBON

September 9, 2026

More youth are seeking work but are unable to find jobs.

Sharp rise in unemployment, surge in part-time and informal work signal worsening jobs crisis—IBON

September 9, 2026

More people being counted as employed does not mean that Filipino families are becoming more economically secure.

High prices expose crisis of low incomes – IBON

September 6, 2026

Price increases translate immediately into hunger, deprivation and debt when wages are too low, jobs are insecure and families have little protection against economic shocks.

Official poverty figures discount millions of poor Filipinos—IBON

August 22, 2026

Poverty reduction should not mean merely keeping people barely above a statistical line.

Who’s to blame for our bad manners?
Another look at education

August 19, 2026

Instead of addressing the education crisis, the Marcos Jr government is simply fixated on mass-producing a labor force tailored to the needs of the global market.

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

August 15, 2026

ANALYSIS

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

Pax Silica: Whose industrialization is it anyway?

August 12, 2026

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.