By Edmund Khor In the recent Budget speech 2010, the Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam claimed that the lax foreign workers policy had reduced unemployment and raised wages for Singaporeans. He said the huge influx of foreign workers had enabled the median income per household member to rise significantly for the four years from 2005 to 2008. [...]
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This entry was posted on March 13, 2010 at 10:52 pm and is filed under ECONOMY.