Big bold rhetoric won’t work
The latest labor statistics show employment contracting by 277,000 year-on-year to 49.27 million, while unemployment grew by 590,000 to 2.25 million in…
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The latest labor statistics show employment contracting by 277,000 year-on-year to 49.27 million, while unemployment grew by 590,000 to 2.25 million in…
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A week after the national budget for 2026 was signed by Ferdinand Marcos Jr., budget watchdogs said the spending plan remains laden with pork.
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A considerable portion involved foreign-assisted projects, for which the government is required to provide counterpart funding.
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Crooks and crocodiles in government have reverted to the old reliable farm-to-market roads (FMR) for kickbacks in the 2026 budget after flood control projects…
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Senate President Pro Tempore Panfilo Lacson on Sunday flagged what he said were P2.5 billion worth of “allocables” linked to Imee Marcos in the 2025 National…
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The UA was formalized after 1987 as a ‘matter of convenience’ to avoid the cumbersome special or supplemental appropriations bills required for contingencies.
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Debt service receives the ‘first cut’ of the budget, as it is funded first from available revenues, before allocations to agencies for programs such as…
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What drives senators and congressmen to steal amounts one cannot spend in a lifetime?
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Pinuna ng mga opposition lawmakers sa House of Representatives nitong Huwebes ang tinawag nilang “railroading” o pagmamadali sa pagpasa ng Bicameral Conference…
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The emerging reality is that this budget will be devoid of the promised reforms after the massive corruption that perverted the past three Marcos General…
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Opposition lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Thursday slammed the “railroading” of the ratification of the Bicameral Conference Committee report on…
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For 2026, P250 billion in UA has been proposed, which watchdogs have linked to anomalous projects that prioritize vested interests over essential services like…
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The proposed spending plan for 2026, while more ‘orderly,’ still has huge provisions for the pork barrel through the unprogrammed appropriations, which…
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‘When access to health care depends on a politician’s endorsement, something deeply wrong has taken root not only legally but morally.’
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As the Christmas season winds down and the lights dim across the provinces, questions linger over where public money flowed while the nation was distracted by…
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In the House of Representatives, pork swelled to almost double the National Expenditure Program.
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As a senior DPWH official, Cabral was allegedly central to the handling of budget allocations under the allocables scheme.
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