Substantial economic relief will help millions amid worsening crisis

May 21, 2026

Millions of Filipinos are just a few more price increases away from poverty.

Reframed curriculum: A worrisome guide for market-ready and nation-blind Filipinos

May 19, 2026

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Education continues to be reduced to a factory floor, where classrooms function as production lines processing students into the future workforce of global supply chains.

How can Marcos lead ASEAN prosperity while PH lags behind? – IBON

May 8, 2026

Slowing growth, soaring prices, and worsening joblessness expose the Marcos administration’s failed economic management and diminish its credibility to lead ASEAN especially at this time of crisis

Who needs saving?

May 2, 2026

There are details you won’t find in reports and statistics—you only see them when you visit the community, so touch grass, be with the people.

Jobs volatility under the Marcos administration

April 30, 2026

The uncertainty of employment is evident in the increasing volatility of the labor market, which cannot be explained by seasonality alone or by pandemic lockdowns. At the root of the jobs crisis is a sluggish and non-inclusive economy, weakened by the lack of strong domestic production sectors as engines for sustained economic growth. 

Productivity rises, wages stay low, big business wins

April 30, 2026

Workers’ productivity surged, but wages barely increased. Corporations meanwhile reaped big profits.

It is time workers got their fair share of the wealth they created.

A fertilizer crisis unfolds

April 27, 2026

Are we headed to the inevitability of food insecurity or famine from a war that is not of our own making but brings the heaviest toll on us? More expensive fuel and fertilizer should not be a threat if only the Philippine government protects the domestic economy, local food production, and the direct food producers—the farmers and fisherfolk.

#SiomaiSupport

April 27, 2026

Paanong nagawa ng sikat na restawran na may mahigit 80 branches sa buong bansa ang ganito sa kanilang mga manggagawa? Hindi dapat ganoon na lang ang pagtrato ng mga kompanya sa mga taong lumilikha ng halaga.

Watt a burden

April 26, 2026

What is the government doing? Despite President Marcos Jr’s Executive Order 110 declaring a “state of national energy emergency”, on March 24, it’s business as usual for oil, energy, and electricity firms. The government, meanwhile, just continues with the 12% value-added tax on electricity, adding to the burden of the majority who are already financially struggling, while power firms profit from the crisis.