"Nearly 300,000 Singaporean workers earn $1,200 or less in gross
monthly income. Half of them, or one in 10 workers, earn even less
- $900. They are the group most vulnerable to retrenchments and
fallout from economic restructuring. Many already struggle to make
ends meet and have little or nothing for their medical and
retirement needs."
- Straits Times, July 1, 2005
"Monthly incomes for households in the bottom 20 per cent fell 3.2
per cent a year, from $933 in 1998 to $795 in 2003."
- Straits Times citing the household expenditure survey, Jun 18,
2005
"...the spiraling numbers of applications for the Straits Times
School Pocket Money Fund to help needy children. The number needing
help tripled from 3,735 in 2001 to 10,419 in 2003. According to CDC
figures, those needing financial aid swelled from 14,300 to 22,500
in 2002, and 31,570 in 2003."
- Straits Times, Jan 29, 2005
