The family living wage (as of October 2022)

November 9, 2022

The urgency for a substantial wage increase, ample cash assistance for the poor and subsidies for vulnerable sectors become all the more glaring as the cost of living rises with soaring inflation.

Lockdown gnawed at poorest families’ meager incomes

August 11, 2021

Severe Income Inequality in the Philippines (2)

June 19, 2018

Aside from only a few super-rich families holding one half of total Filipino family income, there is a huge gap between how much majority of ordinary Filipino households earn monthly, and that of the country’s top earners. But government’s market-oriented policies tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, such as slapping more […]