by Grace Yeoh | Feb 4, 2019 | Culture, dinner, Food, food insecurity, Giving, income inequality, inequality, low income, low ses, lower income, nvpc, People, sponsored ad, st john's, underprivileged, volunteering
Photography by author. It’s not every day that an interviewee’s family asks you to stay for dinner, but at 8:30 PM on a Thursday night, I dig into store-bought beef hor fun with 54-year-old Steven Seow and his wife at their dining table. This is paired with possibly...
by Grace Yeoh | Jan 15, 2019 | Commentary, Current Affairs, Education, exam, failure, hard work, inequality, Media, narrative, O level, o level results, pressure, school, stress, students, success
Featured image: Straits Times (facebook) / Unsplash (cover) It’s been 12 years since I collected my O Level results, but the annual narratives that society perpetuates when it comes to our education coverage remain mind-numbingly predictable. Despite the Ministry of...
by Tanya Ong | Dec 13, 2018 | Community, inequality
Sociologist Teo You Yenn recently wrote a book, This is what inequality looks like, after spending three years researching inequality in Singapore. In particular, Teo was interested in the growing-up experiences of children from low-income families living in rental...
by Julian Wong | Dec 13, 2018 | Commentary, Current Affairs, data, elitism, inequality, milieu insight, policy making, prejudice, SES, socioeconomic inequality, stereotypes, survey
Top image: Unsplash Beginning with the textbook that gifted us the ‘high/low SES’ generalisations, and culminating in Channel NewsAsia’s documentary Regardless of Class, inequality has arguably become the national conversation of 2018. At the same time, a lot of it...
by IPS Editor | Dec 4, 2018 | Community Spirit, Demography, Demography & Family, Inclusion, inequality, Safety Nets
During the 2018 Budget debate in Singapore, considerable time was dedicated to discussing the Net Investment Returns Contribution (NIRC) framework. Under the constitution, the NIRC framework allows the government to utilise up to 50 per cent of the expected long-term...
by Tsiuwen Yeo | Dec 1, 2018 | conversations, inequality, nyc, Perspectives, Sponsored content, youth
Is inequality in Singapore a myth? These days, it’s definitely a conversation starter. It certainly isn’t as apparent here, but exists nevertheless. That’s what at least 40-odd Singapore youths think, having attended the final session of a two-parter Youth...
