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SINGAPORE – In the ongoing discussion about inequality, I have often heard people refer to "bleeding heart liberals".
This label is a practical and rather dismissive shortcut for referring to academics and other assumptions that underpin Singapore's social policy. They want policymakers and citizens to look beyond the means of helping the poor, to understand how the institutions, structures and minds behind policies have sometimes disadvantaged the poor and marginalized them [19659003]. Straits Times
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