social services budget
About the recently-enacted 2025 national government budget
December 31, 2024
Pres. Marcos Jr said that the newly signed General Appropriations Act for 2025 reflects the government’s commitment to “[transform] economic gains into meaningful outcomes for every Filipino.” The Php6.326-trillion national budget however only reinforces the country’s undemocratic politics and inequitable economy. It still has hundreds of billions of pesos for pork barrel projects, confidential and […]
IBON Executive Director Sonny Africa on enacted 2025 national government budget
December 31, 2024
The people have to beg and struggle for every precious peso for education, health, housing and ayuda that they’re entitled to as a matter of right, and that the government should give as a matter of obligation
2024 Budget Cuts and Increases From 2023
October 3, 2023
Debt servicing, infrastructure and defense are getting big increases in the 2024 budget. But much-needed service-oriented areas such as education, social work, labor and health are either given negligible increases or defunded.
2023 budget: Debt, defense over social services, envi
August 26, 2022
Marcos Jr’s budget priorities are further bared. Which items get more funds and which on the other hand get less?
