Senators on Wednesday, April 9 welcomed the continued decline in the unemployment rate in the country which dropped to 3.8 percent in February 2025. “The continued decline in the unemployment rate to 3.8 percent in February, down from 4.3 percent along with the decrease in underemployment...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (Speaker’s office) For House Speaker Martin Romualdez, the falling unemployment rate is proof that the Marcos administration's policies are uplifting Filipinos. Romualdez on Tuesday, April 8, welcomed the...
Jobless Filipinos increased in number to 1.94 million in February 2025 from 1.8 million last year, as the job market struggled to absorb over 40 percent of new job seekers. According to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), the February 2025 figure reflects an increased annual unemployment...
World title challenger Charly Suarez will be joined by no less than his top backer former Ilocos Sur Gov. Luis ‘Chavit’ Singson in a special session of the Philippine Sportswriters Association Forum on Tuesday, April 8, at the conference hall of the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex. Along with...
March’s nearly five-year low inflation was particularly a boon to the country’s poorest households, whose price increase rate was even slower at 1.1 percent, prompting the government to push for measures that would sustain the easing of the vulnerable sector’s burden. “The lower food...
Annual consumer price increases slowed further to 1.8 percent in March 2025, down from 2.1 percent in February, as food price hikes eased mainly due to lower rice prices, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) reported. March inflation was the slowest in nearly five years, or since May 2020—at...
The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) has revised upwards the country’s economic performance for the full year of 2024 to 5.7-percent growth, from the preliminary 5.6-percent figure. This upward revision still falls short of the government’s downscaled 2024 gross domestic product (GDP)...
Philippine factory growth contracted for the first time since August 2023—also the steepest decline in nearly four years—due to the worsening health of domestic manufacturing since the start of the year. “Following 18 successive months of growth, the Filipino manufacturing sector slipped back...
ILOILO CITY — The Philippine Statistics Authority reported a 96.7 percent employment rate for women in Western Visayas region in 2023. VENDORS at the public market in San Miguel town, Iloilo province are mostly women. (Tara Yap) “In terms of magnitude, the number of employed...
Construction projects in the Philippines saw their steepest decline in eight months, falling by nearly 15 percent to over 12,500 in January 2025, due to the massive decrease in residential-building constructions. Data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) showed that the January figure...
The growth of the Philippines’ creative economy in 2024 slowed to its lowest in three years as the total value of creative industries only increased to ₱1.94 trillion from ₱1.78 trillion in the previous year. Based on preliminary data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), last...
The Philippine lawn bowls bets will be wearing bullseyes on their backs when the country hosts the 16th Asian Lawn Bowls Championships next month. But head coach and tournament director Ronalyn Redima Greenlees is confident that the hosts will be up to the challenge in trying to defend the...
