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NAPC lead convenor Lope Santos III calls for expanding the Barangay Development Program to bring roads, telecommunications, electricity and poverty reduction…
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NAPC lead convenor Lope Santos III calls for expanding the Barangay Development Program to bring roads, telecommunications, electricity and poverty reduction…

ACT Teachers Rep. Antonio Tinio questions the PSA’s 9.7-percent poverty rate, saying low thresholds fail to reflect rising prices, hunger, stagnant wages and…

Tinio to Marcos: Stop hiding behind ‘fabricated’ poverty figures
Outdated formula cuts number of poor

Anything less isn’t poverty alleviation but poverty management — and managing poverty is just a fancy way of accepting it.

SWS says self-rated poverty among Filipino families fell to 49% in June 2026 from 52% in March, while self-rated food poverty dropped to 36%.

The Department of Labor and Employment and the National Anti-Poverty Commission signed a new agreement to expand training, livelihood, scholarship, and…

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The Maguindanao provinces remain in deep financial distress. The territory continues to suffer from high poverty rates, ranking among the top 10 poorest…

The poverty incidence among families in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) declined from 28.0 percent in 2021 to 23.5 percent in 2023,…

Sen. Bong Go urges Filipino youth leaders to fight poverty and corruption by launching community-based programs, livelihood and skills training, and…


DepEd acknowledges a deepening literacy crisis as 87% of Grade 11 students are tagged non-independent readers, citing poverty, lack of learning support, and…

Veteran journalist Serafin Ledesma highlights Mindanao’s economic contribution amid persistent poverty and uneven development, citing gaps in government…
The DILG has ordered all Philippine barangays to update their 2026 development plans and investment programs, prioritizing anti-poverty projects, livelihood,…

Anihan Technical School (ATS) marks its 40th anniversary in June, highlighting over 1,800 hospitality and restaurant graduates now working across the service…
Informal settlements line the edge of the container port area in Manila, as seen from a pedestrian overpass along Mel Lopez Boulevard. A recent study by the…

Oil price surge threatens to push 1.34 million Filipinos into poverty in 2026, with a Philippine Institute for Development Studies study warning of rising food…

The longer the crisis the deeper the effect.