ALAB Analysis: APEC: Pagtitipon para kanino?
Nasa US na naman si Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. para dumalo sa 2023 Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit. Ano nga ba itong APEC at bakit hindi lang ito basta-basta byahe lang ni Marcos Jr.?
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More part-timers, unpaid family workers underscores admin’s inability to create quality jobs – IBON
Research group IBON said that the millions-surge in informal work, particularly in part-time and unpaid family, indicates that working Filipinos are going on survival mode as the living crisis intensifies. The group also said that the Marcos Jr administration’s...
Tax the super-rich
Growing billionaire wealth amid increasing poverty, worsening joblessness, and stagnant wages shows that it’s high time for the Marcos Jr administration to heed calls for a wealth tax on the country’s billionaires.
Jeepney drivers demand tax suspension, junking of deregulation law amid oil price hike
Jeepney drivers urged the Philippine government to suspend taxes on petroleum products like diesel to help cushion the impact of the recent oil price hikes.
Agriculture deserves a competent leader
The country’s agriculture and food situation has been dire in the last couple of decades.
Marcos Jr’s weak DA leadership is dragging the agriculture sector
One year after taking the secretary post, the agriculture sector continues to be in shambles on a macroeconomic scale under the leadership of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr.
Davao registers 3rd highest inflation rate among regions
The Davao Region registered the third-highest inflation rate in the country, with prices shooting up by 9.4% in January.
#NoGoldenEra | Marcos Jr.’s economic plan to amass wealth for a few
One of the legacies of the Marcos Sr. dictatorship is how it blatantly used the state and bureaucracy to plunder the economy and enrich itself and its favored elite, including foreign interests. Marcos. Jr., with his economic blueprint, is setting the stage to do the same.
The poor cuts down on staples as price hikes continue
When asked about the country’s inflation rate, Jemelie Polinar, a mother of three, let out a sigh as she picked the freshest yet cheapest squash.
Higher taxes await Filipinos as debt amounts to trillions
“The most productive in our history.” This was how former finance secretary Carlos Dominguez described former President Rodrigo Duterte’s economic legacy. However, official figures on the country’s ballooning debt since 2016 tell a different story.
VERIPOYED: South Korea at Singapore, kinopya ang ‘Marcos economic blue print?’
Guhit ni Michael Joselo Villanueva
HINDI TOTOO: Kinopya ng South Korea at Singapore ang ‘economic blueprint’ ni Ferdinand Marcos
Kung babalikan ang opisyal na mga rekord ng pamahalaan, ang tanging matatawag na “Marcos economic blueprint” ay ang koleksyon ng 15 “short, midterm, at long-term development plan” na binuo at ipinatupad sa kanyang 20 taon sa kapangyarihan.
FALSE: South Korea and Singapore copied late dictator Marcos’ ‘economic blueprint’
TAGALOG YouTuber John Anthony Jaboya or Sangkay Janjan TV posted on his Tiktok account a 3-part video titled “Ang sekretong Blueprint ni Marcos,” which claimed that there exists a “grand economic plan” created by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos that can supposedly...