Social Climate

Accidental Catholic

I was born to Protestant parents and duly baptized. By 1948, we were living in…

Persistent poverty

The latest percentage of households rating themselves as Mahirap/Poor was 51, as of the end…

A sluggish ending

From my reading of the fourth quarter statistics of Social Weather Stations (SWS), the ending…

Counting Herod’s victims

The three Herods mentioned in the Holy Scripture were all notorious for their cruelty. The…

The first Christmas census

If the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus, two millennia ago, only wanted a complete set of…

Who might win in 2028?

There will be two presidential elections of interest in 2028: first in May here in…

‘Kuripot’ economics

The recent claim by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) Secretary Maria Cristina Aldeguer-Roque…

The lurching economy

The economy should not be depicted as a machine, churning out goods and services inanimately.…

Numbers that hardly matter

My research, as a social scientist on the subject of human well-being and the quality…

Surveying corruption anew

Social Weather Stations fielded a special opinion poll on the topic of corruption in the…