At just 12, Eugene Dela Cruz was homeless, sleeping under tricycles and begging for bread on Manila's streets.

IN the often-cynical world of Philippine politics, where promises are plenty and delivery is rare, one man briefly captured ...

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 ...

A RECENT report by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research and analysis division of the Economist Group, said: ...

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.

A total of 150,000 school bags have been distributed to several public and private schools in the first district of Batangas, ...

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 ...

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

Ronnel Gardon tends rice supplies at a shop in Manila [AP Photo/Joeal Calupitan]. According to the recent Agriculture Department price monitoring report, from February 22 to March 4, regular ...

He had worked as a nursing assistant on the island of Bohol, as a security guard in Manila and as a crane driver in Saudi Arabia. But when his wife died suddenly in 2011, he moved home to take ...