IBON: Flood control budget realignment confirms Marcos Jr’s selective anti-corruption drive

September 24, 2025

NEWS

The continued neglect of key agencies and the mere tokenistic involvement of the public in the budget process strongly suggests a superficial anti-corruption campaign by the Marcos Jr administration.

Slowest inflation, but prices higher than during peak inflation under Marcos

August 19, 2025

NEWS ANALYSIS

The less-than-1% inflation indicates slower price hikes but does not mean that prices in general went down.

Gov’t claims of quality job expansion misleading amid worsening informality and rise in part-timers – IBON

August 6, 2025

Fewer underemployed people is not an indication that the jobs situation is improving.

Honest SONA, bigger solutions needed to address nation’s problems – IBON

July 25, 2025

The country needs bigger solutions, not the administration’s usual checklist of so-called accomplishments and overblown promises at this year’s SONA.

Healthy labor market? Over 2M increase in poorly paid Filipinos says otherwise – IBON

July 8, 2025

May 2025 labor force figures do not show decent jobs being created, but a deepening jobs crisis marked by rising informality, falling job quality, and stagnant wages.

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 […]