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Irene Yue Hoong Ng is Associate Professor of Social Work and Director of the Social Service Research Centre at the National University of Singapore.

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We accept some inequality in order that we can have the kind of economic prosperity that has brought us this far.

Singapore has become a stratified society. Years of unevenly distributed growth in a neoliberal growth regime has led to emergence of a class of working and non-working poor who face insurmountable challenges in uplifting themselves from a cycle of poverty.

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