Poverty in Singapore grew from 16 to 28% in one decade...

[TopSage]

Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

This is substantially higher than the poverty level in Hong Kong which has already implemented minimum income.



The analysis done here in this article is roughly in agreement to using another criteria "half median income".

Using half of median income as a criteria, it is found that poverty has grown from 16% to 28% in 10 years.

Poverty in Singapore affects about 1 in 4 households compared with 19% in HK and 15% in US.

Singapore has the highest rate of poverty among first world countries.
This is not surprising ....27% of Singaporean workers earn less than $1500 per month (source)

 

[Leongsam]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

There is no poverty in Singapore.

 

[Froggy]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

There is no poverty in Singapore.

 

[War Criminal]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

As technology progresses, humans will only get lazier.

People now drive cars, sit buses or trains instead of walking.

They use email, facebook in their homes instead of going out and meeting friends face to face.

They eat heavily processed and unhealthy food unlike our predecessors who ate natural, healthy stuff.

It will only get worse.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

why did this thread stop being a sticky?

 

[Leongsam]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

why did this thread stop being a sticky?

There's no reason why it should be a sticky.

 

[Leongsam]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

The analysis done here in this article is roughly in agreement to using another criteria "half median income".

A statistical definition of "poverty" is meaningless simply because it's an arbitrary classification of a subjective word.

I can define a "stupid" person as anyone with an 1Q of less than 100 and that would mean that almost 50% of sinkies are morons.

My definition of "poverty" is someone who cannot afford one or more of the basic necessities of life ie food, water, clothing, shelter.

Not being able to afford a smart phone is not "poverty".

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

There's no reason why it should be a sticky.

So why did u sticky it then?

 

[Leongsam]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

So why did u sticky it then?

So that I could merge all the threads on the same subject.

 

[escher]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

And the PAP walking bags of excrement and their toadies and cronies got richer beyond their wildest dreams

And in time, they get even richer and will have BILLIONS instead of merely millions

ALL OF THEM SHARPENING SHARPENING SHARPENING THEIR KNIVES READY FOR THE BIG BIG BIG HOOTING THAT WILL BEGIN THE MOMENT
SMEAR OF SHIT ON SOLE OF SHOE LKY GO UNDER THE GHOULS AND DEMONS ALL READY TO FUCK AND SCREW LKY WITH THE SAME KIND OF MERCY LKY SHOWN TO OTHERS


LKY SON AH LOONIE WILL BE HOOTED UNTIL HE JOIN HIS FATHER UNDER THE DEMONS AND GHOULS

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

So that I could merge all the threads on the same subject.

So there was a bunch of threads on this subject of poverty in sg started by different forummers.

You stickied one thread so that you could somehow merge them all into a single thread.

Must have been tough searching for all the various threads of the same topic started by different forummers.

 

[Leongsam]

Re: Based on HK's poverty line, poverty in Singapore is 25.5%

So there was a bunch of threads on this subject of poverty in sg started by different forummers.

You stickied one thread so that you could somehow merge them all into a single thread.

Must have been tough searching for all the various threads of the same topic started by different forummers.

Sometimes it's easy and other times it's hard. It all depends upon what the search function picks up.