IBON Poverty Wages Feature

Hunyo 25, 2023

Filipino workers and their families are barely surviving on the minimum wage because this is even less than the rather low-standard official poverty threshold for a family of five. In other words, Philippine minimum wages are family poverty wages.

Navigating Uncertainties: A trans woman’s quest for survival

Hunyo 23, 2023

Leona is only one of the many trans women in the country who continue to struggle through and persist despite all the attacks, especially from US imperialism. With her story, the voices of trans women and other queer people can be heard, calling on us to actively battle to propagate these spaces, especially this Pride Month.

A continuing quest for freedom

Hunyo 12, 2023

Our foreign policy is for the security and development of the people, most of all. It should uphold peace over militarism, sovereignty over aggression, and development over empire.

Camouflaging climate inaction

Hunyo 9, 2023

FEATURES

Hyping climate spending is hypocritical if environmental destruction continues.

The expensive and harmful ‘Build Better More’

Hunyo 2, 2023

The Philippine government has a repetitive narrative when it comes to infrastructure – that it will “revitalize the economy” and “create more jobs” or that the government is “Building more for better lives” — claims so-repeated that they seem like obvious benefits. But history shows that this is not always the case.

IBON Research Head on the Maharlika Investment Fund

Mayo 29, 2023

Regalo

Mayo 14, 2023

Dagdag sa kaniyang gawain sa loob at labas ng tahanan, bitbit din niya ang panawagan ng lahat ng ina, gayundin ang panawagan ng maraming Pilipino para sa mababang presyo ng mga pangunahing bilihin at ayuda para sa mga mahihirap na sektor ng lipunan.

Economic slowdown stresses urgency of boosting household purchasing power with wage hikes, ayuda– IBON

Mayo 14, 2023

The continuing deceleration in household spending from low incomes and high prices is among the biggest factors in the slowdown, and is among issues that the administration can immediately address

BBM’s US trip: It’s all about US

Mayo 9, 2023

The current Marcos Jr administration will have US support despite its deeply corrupt, dynastic and rights-violating character. Or at least as long as the US keeps getting what it wants, and the Philippines doesn’t ask for anything that the US doesn’t want to give — like real freedom and development, or sovereignty and independence.