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At the recent #COP29, the PH govt once again postured to champion climate justice. But it continues to facilitate big business plunder of the environment, and refuses to undertake real solutions versus climate injustice.

#ProtectTheEnvironment #PeopleEconomics
November 24, 2024 at 4:25 AM
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"The Philippines is being economically bullied and our officials are responding with supplication. Subservience isn’t strategy – sovereignty is."

#IBONBirdtalk #TrumpTariffs #PeopleEconomics #MarcosMidterm #StriveForSovereigntyAndIndependence
July 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Despite the seemingly tamer inflation rate, prices have increased – especially that of food.

#SahodItaasPresyoIbaba #PeopleEconomics

Hi-res: ibon.org/prices-wages-ncr-2502
March 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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In the NCR, the Php645 minimum wage is only 53% of the Php1,220 FLW that a family of five needs to live decently.

Hi-res: ibon.org/flw-ncr-2506

#IBONBirdtalk #SahodItaas #PeopleEconomics #MarcosMidterm
July 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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"Getting the UNSC seat won't just be the latest sign that rules don't matter — it will also confirm PH as an extension of US hegemonic interests."

#usph80 #budgetph #unsc #peopleeconomics
June 3, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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It takes a mass movement to eliminate corruption, and public outrage is a good place to start.

#StopKorap #PeopleEconomics

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September 5, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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Despite the seemingly tamer inflation rate, prices have increased – especially that of food.

#SahodItaasPresyoIbaba #PeopleEconomics

Hi-res: ibon.org/prices-wages-ncr-2501
February 6, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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"The Marcos Jr administration can show genuine concern by getting at the root of the problem."

#usirantensions #bbm #ofw #peopleeconomics
March 4, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Since taking office, the Marcos Jr administration's outstanding debt has ballooned by 38%. The average monthly increase in outstanding debt under Marcos surpasses that of previous administrations.

Hi-res: ibon.org/marcos-borrowing-ao-2511/

#IBONBirdtalk #PeopleEconomics
January 14, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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Divided per family, national government outstanding debt under Marcos Jr is now over Php600,000.

Hi-res: ibon.org/ng-debt-ao-2502

#PeopleEconomics
April 2, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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BBM Na! aims to provide Php20/kg rice to 2 million households until December 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.org/ibon-hits-limited-bbm-na-program

#PeopleEconomics #BentengBigasMeronNa
May 28, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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"Things might even be worse, and the public deserves to know all the economic, military and other commitments the government made."

#PeopleEconomics #MarcosMidterm
July 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Increasing food dependency ratio is a sign of shrinking capacity to feed ourselves. This is not an accident. It's an outcome of decades of neglect of PH agriculture.

#IBONBirdtalk #PeopleEconomics
July 21, 2026 at 3:40 AM
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30 years after the enactment of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995: Large corporations are the main beneficiaries from exploiting the country's vast mineral potential.

#MalalangEkonomiya #ProtectTheEnvironment #UpholdPeoplesWelfare #PeopleEconomics
March 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Instead of building a self-reliant, clean and affordable energy system around domestic needs, the Marcos Jr administration is emphasizing new energy capacity for foreign investors in Pax Silica supply chains.

#PaxSilica #RejectPaxSilica #PeopleEconomics
September 15, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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"Stagnation is the eve of decline.

PH growth is choked by the Marcos Jr govt denying worsening poverty and joblessness, ignoring agricultural contraction and deindustrialization, and blindly hoping that foreign investors will save the economy."

#PeopleEconomics
January 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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"Php1,200 nationwide wage is a 50:50 split of profits between employers and workers."

Hi-res: ibon.org/php1200-flw-doable

#MayoUno #SahodItaas #PeopleEconomics
May 1, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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The US is expanding participation in the Balikatan exercises to internationalize pressure on China, and to dilute US' growing military presence in the region by embedding it within multilateral exercises.

#PeopleEconomics
April 29, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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More than 2,000 trees in La Mesa, coastal ecosystems in Bulacan, and communities from Batangas to Davao — just some of the costs behind Ramon Ang's growing empire?

#ProtectTheEnvironment
#PeopleEconomics
June 10, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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Despite low inflation in December 2025, Filipinos still struggle with the low real value of wages and high food prices.

Hi-res available: www.ibon.org/prices-wages...

#PeopleEconomics #SahodItaas #PresyoIbaba
January 9, 2026 at 7:47 AM
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The Marcos Jr government has continued to disguise the real situation of working Filipinos just to attract foreign investments and boost business confidence.

#MalalangEkonomiya #PeopleEconomics

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High note? Gov’t ignoring millions-rise in part-time, informal workers -- IBON
[NEWS] The Marcos Jr administration is ignoring widespread informality and the real labor force situation, demonstrating a lack of concern for genuine job creation.
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March 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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RELATED: ibon.org/election-post-mortem

"The disagreement isn’t about what’s to be done, but rather in who benefits from policies and how gains are distributed."

#PeopleEconomics #Eleksyon2025
May 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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In the NCR, the minimum wage of Php645 is only a little over half of the Php1,225 FLW for a family of five.

Hi-res: ibon.org/flw-ncr-2502

#SahodItaas #PeopleEconomics
March 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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High prices continue to burden poor and low-income Filipinos despite government’s claim of tempering inflation.

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ibon.org/prices-wages-ncr-2412

#IBONBirdtalk #PeopleEconomics
January 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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"Like the Duterte brand, it's all bluster and optics -- ultimately empty and devoid of anything meaningful or positive."

IBON Executive Director on Duterte supporters' call for a week of OFW Zero Remittance

#malalangekonomiya #peopleeconomics
March 26, 2025 at 7:44 AM