Falling employment, rising underemployment confirm worsening joblessness

June 9, 2026

NEWS

The overall labor force picture is of an economy that is still not creating enough work.

Headline figures mask crisis of informal, volatile labor—IBON

May 6, 2026

The data underscore an economy without stable foundations. Agriculture and manufacturing are critical for broad-based and sustainable growth but continue to fluctuate and deteriorate, while services mainly absorb displaced workers in insecure and low-quality employment.

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.

Highest joblessness since 2022 due to economy’s structural defects

March 15, 2026

The Marcos Jr administration needs to acknowledge and urgently address these problems, which cannot be reduced to last year’s corruption controversies and will only worsen as global oil shocks bear down in the coming months.

Substantial wage hike urgent amid unabated rising prices

February 6, 2025

The Marcos Jr administration should couple substantial wage hikes with a truly transformative economic plan that includes strategically tempering inflation.

Inflation slowed but higher prices burden consumers further

August 7, 2023

The cost of basic goods such as rice, vegetables, fish and oil continues to rise and burden millions of poor consumers

Invisible poverty, trivial solutions

August 22, 2022

The most fundamental cause of poverty is in how the overwhelming majority of Filipinos only have low value-added and low productivity work. This is not for lack of individual effort or capacity but because of the structure of the economy distorted by neoliberal policies.