Ayuda still needed even with shift to GCQ

May 15, 2021

Giving the Php10,000 ayuda demanded is extremely urgent. The amount merely approximates the government’s low official poverty threshold of Php10,756 and certainly does not come close to compensating the past year of collapsed incomes, anxiety and difficulty for tens of millions of Filipinos.

Gov’t hyping employment gains to avoid giving more ayuda, stimulus – IBON

May 6, 2021

Latest labor force figures show that Filipinos are not regaining their jobs and incomes and, on the contrary, are desperately trying to make a living in whatever way they can.

Ayuda urgent – jobs crisis still worse than before pandemic

May 1, 2021

Government claims of employment improving in February 2021 compared to pre-pandemic January 2020 are unfounded. The so-called jobs increase is just Filipinos desperate to make a living in any way they can.

Ayuda urgent: Jobs crisis still worse than before pandemic — IBON

April 30, 2021

NEWS

The so-called increase in employment is just Filipinos desperate to make a living in any way they can. This makes the need for substantial cash aid even more urgent.

There is Money for Ayuda

April 29, 2021

[INFOGRAPHIC] There are trillions in possible fund sources for cash assistance, wage and production subsidies, and health response. What is lacking is a government willing to spend on the people’s most urgent needs.

IBON Executive Director on the Duterte administration’s infrastructure delusion on display at Sulong Pilipinas forum

April 26, 2021

IBON Executive Director on the Duterte administration’s infrastructure delusion on display at Sulong Pilipinas forum

IBON Research Head on the lack of aid amid ECQ extension

April 5, 2021

Measly ECQ aid an afterthought — IBON

March 31, 2021

Poor and low-income families in NCR+ deserve not just Php1,000 but at least Php10,000 in emergency cash subsidies to be distributed immediately, or ten times more than being offered after a year of lockdowns.

Token Aid Under Bayanihan

March 16, 2021