Tag: enhanced community quarantine
Ayuda urgently needed to mitigate worsening poverty
Agosto 21, 2021
The government has just announced the transition from ECQ to modified ECQ so the economy can supposedly recover. But the Duterte administration’s over-reliance on destructive lockdowns without effective and substantial health and economic response, like much-needed ayuda, is what’s really worsening the crisis and pushing more Filipinos into poverty.
Use ₱133.9-billion TRAIN revenues for ayuda – IBON
Agosto 14, 2021
The Duterte administration can use revenue generated by its regressive TRAIN law to fund emergency cash assistance. TRAIN’s new taxes increased the prices for goods and services consumed by the majority poor Filipinos even amid the pandemic and the revenues can be used productively while the law remains.
IBON Research Head on the lack of aid amid ECQ extension
Abril 5, 2021
Measly ECQ aid an afterthought — IBON
Marso 31, 2021
Poor and low-income families in NCR+ deserve not just Php1,000 but at least Php10,000 in emergency cash subsidies to be distributed immediately, or ten times more than being offered after a year of lockdowns.
IBON: Gov’t should rectify, ramp up COVID-19 aid
Marso 29, 2021
Reimposing an ECQ will only aggravate the health and economic crisis if the Duterte administration does not rectify its scrimped, militaristic and increasingly politicized response. It should take fast and real action, starting with prompt aid distribution to all affected households.
IBON Executive Director On Impending ECQ
Marso 27, 2021
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.
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.
