Overwhelmingly underfunded

November 8, 2025

“As I was being wheeled out of the hospital, I took vivid mental note of the institution’s decrepit condition – details I may have overlooked while receiving care from our underpaid health workers.”

Minimum Wage and Family Living Wage per region (as of October 2025)

November 8, 2025

NCR Family Living Wage (as of October 2025)

November 8, 2025

Low real wages, more expensive food (as of October 2025)

November 8, 2025

Inflation steady, but Filipinos still hurting

November 7, 2025

Inflation stayed low in October, but this hasn’t eased the burden on Filipino households troubled with expensive prices of food and utilities.

#PeopleEconomics #SahodItaas #PresyoIbaba

NAIA privatization: Bigger corruption at play

October 30, 2025

Ang highlights how much was “remitted” to the government—masking the fact that the public is being squeezed to fund both government collection and private profit.

IBON Executive Director after attending Senate Finance Committee hearing on budget transparency

October 29, 2025

Livestreaming isn’t transparency if lawmakers still make the real decisions off-ca

Kampuhan, kalsada, pakikibaka – Oktubre 2025

October 20, 2025

Sa ilalim ng mga trapal sa gilid ng kalsada
‘Sansaglit naki-umpukan, sa kanila nakiisa
Nilahad ng matatanda kanilang pagdurusa
Mababang pasahod, alipin ng Hacienda.

Corruption’s toll: What Php197B could have built for the homeless

September 26, 2025

The Php197 billion that may have been lost annually to corruption in flood control projects could have been used instead to build shelter for the homeless.