This is the first trap of poverty. What I'd like you to do is, know that your social status is not who you are. It's where you are. And when you embrace an identity that you are great — no more a ...

The Philippine Poverty Reduction Summit 2025 (PPRS25) concluded on Tuesday with a strong call to action for deeper ...

The Philippines' poverty rate dropped to 15.5% last year from 18.1% in 2021, with rising food prices limiting the reduction in the number of poor, the government's statistics agency said on Thursday.

ORGANIZED labor called on the 20th Congress to end the discriminatory wage system and ensure that all workers, regardless of ...

MANILA, Philippines — Filipino families who consider themselves poor continued to increase in the fourth quarter of 2024, with half of them—the highest in more than 20 years — rating ...

MANILA, Philippines — Fifty-two percent or around 14.4 million Filipino families last March considered themselves poor, based on the results of the latest self-rated poverty survey of the Social ...

Increase to benefit 1.2m workers; labor groups hit ‘measly’ hike Some 1.2 million minimum wage earners in Metro Manila will ...

MANILA, Philippines — Fifty-two percent or around 14.4 million Filipino families last March considered themselves poor, based on the results of the latest self-rated poverty survey of the Social ...

A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed that Filipino families who experienced involuntary hunger rose slightly to 20 ...

MANILA, Philippines ... From 50 percent in November 2024, self-rated poverty dropped to 42 percent in the non-commissioned survey conducted from April 10 to 16.