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The Singapore govt encouraged home ownership during the past decades. It is time to review this policy. Home ownership was promoted with the following policy goals: a) Encourage citizens to have a stake in Singapore b) Give the citizens a chance to own an appreciating asset c) It make social more stable when the citizens do... 

The US Private Sector Job Quality Index released in November last month looks at the level of quality of jobs. In the index, “high quality” jobs are jobs "that pay more than the average weekly wage and tend to have more hours per week," and the “low quality” ones are those that "pay less [than average wage] and offer... 

Recently, Pritam Singh had asked Minister Chan Chun Sing about the number of jobs created in each of the sectors under the Government’s Industry Transformation Maps, broken down according to Singaporean, Permanent Resident and foreigner groupings. Simple as it is, Minister Chan in turn had failed (or more accurately,...