Duterte administration
Bayanihan 2 and 2021 budget leave millions of unemployed behind
September 3, 2020
STATEMENT
Millions of Filipinos and their families will continue to suffer for years without a genuine stimulus program overriding the misguided fiscal conservatism and reckless optimism of the economic managers.
Message on National Heroes Day
August 31, 2020
STATEMENT
The Educators’ Forum for Development joins Filipino teachers in taking up the challenge to inspire one another and our students to commit to higher ideals and go beyond ourselves and convenience.
Bayanihan 2: Too small, hinders health and recovery
August 21, 2020
BY SONNY AFRICA
The beggarly Bayanihan 2 bill preferred by the economic managers and imposed on Congress is much too small for the magnitude of the crisis facing the country.
Promised SAP zapped
August 18, 2020
BIRD FEED
Those that are no longer targeted by government to receive aid aren’t just numbers but actual families being left to wriggle out of the crisis on their own.
PH has the money for Php1.6 trillion stimulus
August 12, 2020
BY SONNY AFRICA
A robust stimulus response is needed and very possible. If there is none, it’s only because the Duterte administration chooses not to have one.
Stimulus: Spend, spend, spend Php1.6 trillion
August 11, 2020
BY SONNY AFRICA
Maybe all it takes for something to become government policy is to say it thrice?
Duterte gov’t to blame for worst economic collapse in PH history
August 6, 2020
STATEMENT
The Duterte administration is to blame for the worst economic collapse in the country’s recorded history. Growth rate falling to -16.5% in the second quarter from 5.4% in the same period last year is an unprecedented 21.9 percentage point drop.
IBON Executive Director on president’s address to the nation
August 5, 2020
