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Govt stinginess worsens Filipinos’ suffering and PH economic collapse

November 10, 2020

Proposed 2021 health budget shrinks, neglects public health–IBON 

September 22, 2020

PH ‘stimulus’ smallest in region

July 29, 2020

Gov’t should check SAP’s gross failure as COVID cases rise – IBON

June 30, 2020

Open-air jeepneys safer against COVID-19 than enclosed modernized counterparts

June 21, 2020

Govt jeepney ban has already cost drivers Php78,000

June 19, 2020

Duterte administration’s recovery plans help the rich more than the poor

June 5, 2020

Duterte gov’t giving up Php667-B in potential COVID response funds to boost corporate profits

May 20, 2020

Features

FEATURES | The government’s defeatist attitude and blind surrender to market forces is the biggest reason why Philippine rice production and domestic agriculture as a whole remains so backward

Filipino rice farmers need support, not liberalization

November 1, 2020

Features | We may survive the pandemic, but we are headed towards even greater downward pressure on wages and working conditions amid greater repression of organized labor. We are headed towards increasing compulsion of capitalists to seek rapid growth at all costs, including environmental and social costs.

Neoliberalism and our multiple crises in the COVID era: Dare to struggle, dare to win

November 1, 2020

COMMENTARY BY CASEY SALAMANCA

By hyping UHC, government pays lip service to the Filipino people’s right to health. The right to health pertains to a person’s overall well-being.

Telltale signs that health care in the Philippines is not universal

October 5, 2020

BY SONNY AFRICA

The debt crisis is already upon us – just not the kind that the economic managers and creditors are worried about where debt payments to lenders are interrupted.

Duterte govt: Just Can’t Debt Enough

October 4, 2020

BY JOSE LORENZO LIM

Are these projects really what will bring economic recovery while the nation grapples with a crisis-stricken public health system and economic decline?

Never Gonna Give You Up: Duterte’s Top 2021 Infrastructure Flagship Projects and Recovery

October 3, 2020

BY JOSE LORENZO LIM

Are the planned infrastructure projects really what the economy needs right now after everything that’s happened this year? How much of the infrastructure helps fight the COVID-19 pandemic?

It really hurts: Economic infrastructure over health

September 12, 2020

Bird Feed

Xandra Liza C. Bisenio

Promised SAP zapped

Sonny Africa

SONA 2020: “Boracay is doing well because of its scenery”

Rosario Guzman

Talking ‘bout a (bike) revolution

Sok

Araw-Lilim

Maricar R. Piedad

COVID-19: How prepared are we now?

Landings

Infographics

Duterte’s Pandemic Borrowing

Millions left behind during lockdown

Low goals, slower delivery

Social distancing in Metro Manila homes