Ministries respond to minimum-income report

Wage floor: Pedestrians in Singapore’s central business district. A report says the government should raise income levels to help lower-wage workers. — Bloomberg

SINGAPORE: The issue of whether more can be done in Singapore to help lower-wage workers and their families was rekindled last Thursday.

A report by researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) published last Thursday said that a family of four, consisting of parents, a pre-teen and a teenager, needs at least S$6,693 a month to afford a basic standard of living.