IBON Foundation
After 7 weeks of lockdown: Meager cash aid puts HHs below official poverty line
Mayo 5, 2020
NEWS
97% of 11.4 million served beneficiaries are barely surviving the lockdown with cash aid that is way below the official poverty line.
Oil tax hike insensitive and will make poor Filipinos suffer more
Mayo 5, 2020
NEWS
Raising taxes on imported oil products will push prices up and burden many poor households already struggling with jobs and income losses amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
POGOs not an essential sector, only 0.23% of gov’t annual tax revenues
Mayo 4, 2020
NEWS
Philippine Offshore Gaming Operations (POGOs) generate minimal income and employment for the country, contrary to government’s claim that it is an essential sector and should be partially reopened.
Assist displaced workers and help them recover
Mayo 1, 2020
Millions left behind during lockdown
Mayo 1, 2020
The Duterte administration’s poor emergency relief leaves 7.7 million working people and their families behind during the worst mass unemployment in decades.
ECQ disrupts livelihood of 19M:
Millions of working people left behind by poor gov’t response
Mayo 1, 2020
NEWS
The Duterte administration’s poor response is causing widespread suffering and passing the burden of containment onto the poorest and most vulnerable.
Gov’t should deliver cash subsidies it owes 3.8M poor families in GCQ areas
Abril 30, 2020
The government announced that it will ‘reprioritize’ social amelioration to only the areas retained under the enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and will ‘discontinue’ in declared general community quarantine (GCQ) areas.
Should the middle class receive subsidy? (Rappler)
Abril 28, 2020
