The ayuda system is clearly about neoliberal welfare policies, set in place only for temporary welfare to keep families subservient to patronage politics and to steer the economy toward priorities sha...

For all its promises of clean energy transition, the MTerra Solar Project exposes where the government’s priorities lie: not with the farmers who feed the nation.

More youth are seeking work but are unable to find jobs.

More people being counted as employed does not mean that Filipino families are becoming more economically secure.

Price increases translate immediately into hunger, deprivation and debt when wages are too low, jobs are insecure and families have little protection against economic shocks.

Poverty reduction should not mean merely keeping people barely above a statistical line.

Instead of addressing the education crisis, the Marcos Jr government is simply fixated on mass-producing a labor force tailored to the needs of the global market.

[ANALYSIS] Filipinos continue to struggle with the high cost of living because the prices of basic goods and services are rising faster than what their wages and incomes can keep up with.

The shiny cutting edge high-tech Pax Silica may indeed be different this time. Unfortunately, the way things are going, it will be different in the sense of a new level of dependence and making real F...

The pangi tree will bear fruit again and again, season after season, long after those who sought to silence the forest are gone.

Through Pax Silica, the Marcos Jr administration allows the plunder of the country’s resources for fleeting cheap jobs and false promises of industrialization.

UMIC status is irrelevant when considering that millions of Filipinos are struggling to make a living or find decent employment.

Price hikes show that government's touted measures to address high prices are not easing the burden on already struggling Filipino households.

EPIRA has failed to make electricity affordable, and instead created possibly the region's most expensive power system, while enriching a few.

[NEWS] A wage hike, particularly towards a living wage, is more urgent than ever. Filipino workers’ already meager wages are failing to keep up with rising prices—now further worsened by the ongoing M...

As the country marks its 128th year of independence, we are once again reminded of how our forefathers fought for freedom from Spain, only for that victory to be seized by the Americans. Philippine fl...

Local oligarchs in partnership with foreign companies gain gargantuan profits from plundering the environment, with government protection. Bureaucrats gain commissions from this plunder. We’ve seen un...

The overall labor force picture is of an economy that is still not creating enough work, where available jobs do not provide enough income for families' basic needs, and where worsening global conditi...

Authorities have resorted to arson, a covert and vicious means of evicting the poor, because they know that they cannot defeat the collective refusal of residents who are standing their ground in defe...

[FEATURES] The real threat confronting Filipinos today is not simply the spread of disinformation and fake news, but how the state is working so hard to conceal the deepening economic crisis.

[NEWS] The country is already being drawn deeper into US military strategy in the region through expanded defense agreements, joint military activities, and commitments to closer security coordination...

[NEWS] Persistently high fuel prices in the Philippines are the result of deliberate government policy choices.