IBON Foundation
Half-million drop in manufacturing: Jobs crisis highlights urgency of Filipino industrialization – IBON
Hunyo 8, 2025
Despite government claims of job resilience, research group IBON said that the country’s jobs crisis persists with significant manufacturing losses and worsening quality of work. The year-on-year increase in unemployed and underemployed Filipinos, lack of decent work, and huge drop in manufacturing jobs underscore the urgent need for a serious national industrialization strategy to create […]
Low real wages, more expensive food, as of May 2025
Hunyo 6, 2025
NCR Family Living Wage as of May 2025
Hunyo 6, 2025
Historic legislated wage hike can be first step to family living wage nationwide
Hunyo 5, 2025
NEWS
The 19th Congress passing a legislated minimum wage hike between Php100 and 200 are important first steps towards a family living wage nationwide.
Limited BBM Na! Program
Mayo 28, 2025
The Benteng Bigas Meron Na! program aims to provide Php20/kl rice to 2 million households until Dec 2025. But its scrimped budget of Php4.5 billion can only provide for not even a million households, still leaving so many behind. Related: IBON hits limited BBM Na! program
IBON hits limited BBM Na! program
Mayo 23, 2025
The BBM Na! program smacks of insincerity. It rations rice to poor households, scrimps on funding, and leaves out millions who also struggle to afford food. This is far from the sweeping effort needed to make Php20 rice a reality and is just a public relations gimmick dressed up as policy.
For richer
Mayo 21, 2025
The three richest billionaires in the country are behind three of the country’s biggest political parties, controlling some 4/5 of the Senate, Congress, and governorships.
