SSS in the News | Social mobility, ageing are Singapore’s big challenges: Tharman
The Sunday Times, pages B4 and B5
Ahead of Singapore’s Budget Day on 19 Feb, Insight looks at where spending demands are greatest: healthcare, infrastructure and jobs. The first of a three-part series, this week’s feature examines Singapore’s social policies, and pressing issues in healthcare. NTU’s head of sociology Teo You Yenn said in her new book This Is What Inequality Looks Like that a single mother, for instance, may find it tough to stay in her job due to a lack of childcare options. There is also a particular need to help those who may have retired without enough savings – having spent their working years at a time where incomes and the cost of living were lower, said governance expert Neo Boon Siong of NTU.
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