A mother and her two children make do with a makeshift home inside concrete pipes, a stark portrait of poverty amid government claims that the number of poor Filipinos has gone down.
The administration of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. must face the reality of poverty in the country amid rising market prices, stagnant wages and a lack of jobs instead of covering up the issue with “fabricated” metrics, a lawmaker...
Manila 3rd District Rep. Joel Chua has urged the Senate impeachment court to give prosecutors some flexibility in discussing the ongoing trial of Vice President Sara Duterte, saying public information was needed to counter fake...
The spokesperson for the Senate impeachment court on Sunday dismissed as mere “gossip” reports that presiding officer Senator Chiz Escudero was wooing opposition -aligned senators to secure the threshold needed to convict Vice President...
Pro Patria Journalism Awards [Rotary Club of Manila]
The government says poverty fell to a record-low 9.7 percent in 2025, but the number comes with a question that is harder to answer: How much does a Filipino actually need to survive? The Philippine Statistics Authority’s poverty threshold...