Leyte 1st District Rep. Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez said Congress is fully committed to supporting President Ferdinand ...

Leyte 1st District Rep. Martin Romualdez said Congress has committed to fully support President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and the Department of Social Welfare ...

Leyte 1st District Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez on Tuesday vowed that the House of Representatives will give its full ...

The Zanjoe Marudo-starrer film is a reflection of a typical Filipino family that perceives raising children as an investment.

More Filipino couples are skipping the altar — and it’s not just a passing trend. Key trends from the Philippine Statistics Authority’s (PSA) civil registration and vital statistics data featured in a ...

MANILA, Philippines – Some 15.5 million Filipino families considered themselves poor in April 2025, according to a new Social Weather Stations’ (SWS) survey. A month before the midterm ...

The September 14-23, 2024 survey found 59% of families rating themselves as poor or 16.3 million Filipinos. This is one percentage point higher than the 58% in the June 2024 survey, and "the highest ...

The role of children in Filipino families is a complex interplay of cultural beliefs, socioeconomic realities, and access to family planning. By addressing these factors, we can promote healthier, ...

If around a third of the nation’s population consider themselves “not poor” and nearly six out of every ten regard themselves as “poor”, then we are looking at the reality that nearly two-thirds of ...

Overseas Filipino Workers are hailed as modern-day heroes who enable their families to climb the socioeconomic ladder. Despite their financial contribution, labour migration often separates children ...

El Omari, S., & Karasneh, M. (2021). Social Health Insurance in the Philippines Do the Poor Really Benefit Journal of Economics and Finance, 45, 171-187.

Noel B. Pabalate/Manila Bulletin About 47 percent of Filipino families have rated themselves as “mahirap” or poor in the fourth quarter of 2023, a Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey revealed on ...