July 22, 2026
The country’s learning crisis begins long before a child enters the classroom. The latest data show that stunting among children under five rose from 23.6% to 25.3%, or about one in every four Filipino children, marking the first increase in the country’s stunting rate in a decade. Senator Loren Legarda warned that no education reform can fully succeed while Filipino children continue to suffer from chronic malnutrition during their earliest years.
The latest findings from the Department of Science and Technology’s […]
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July 21, 2026
For a factory worker who takes home the minimum wage every fifteenth and thirtieth, picking up overtime and holiday shifts just to cover rent and school fees, or a retail employee splitting a 13th-month bonus among bills already due at home, the difference between a fair tax and an unfair one shows up in every payslip.
Senator Loren Legarda has filed a new tax reform measure to make sure that the difference works in favor of Filipino families. Senate Bill No. […]
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July 20, 2026
A ten-story mountain of garbage came crashing down on workers and rescuers in Cebu. In Rizal, 420,000 cubic meters of trash gave way, burying equipment and people whole. For Senator Loren Legarda, the disasters exposed a fundamental failure to enforce the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act, as facilities that no longer comply with sanitary landfill standards are, by law and in practice, dump sites whose continued operation endangers lives.
“That’s the point. It’s not a landfill. It’s a dump site. It’s […]
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July 17, 2026
In collaboration with Solidaridad Bookshop, Senator Loren Legarda brought new life to the storied halls of the bookshop on Padre Faura, Ermita, Manila, for the first session of the Solidaridad Literary Series, a program celebrating Philippine literature through conversation and community. The inaugural event, held on July 16, featured Ivatan poet Dorian Merina in a dialogue on “Laji: Poetry, Orality and the Ivatan Imagination”, a theme that wove together indigenous voice, historical memory, and belonging.
Legarda described the bookshop as a […]
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July 17, 2026
Senator Loren Legarda is pushing for the institutionalization of the Department of Agriculture’s Kabuhayan at Kaunlaran ng Kababayang Katutubo (4K) Program, a nationwide initiative designed to break the cycle of poverty and exclusion among Indigenous Cultural Communities and Indigenous Peoples (ICCs/IPs) by creating and strengthening farm-to-market linkages. She emphasized that the measure seeks to transform decades of neglect into empowerment by delivering livelihood, dignity, and justice to families living in their ancestral lands.
Legarda filed Senate Bill No. 2258 to establish […]
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