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Adding up what the Budget means for now and the future

A foreign worker dormitory in Tuas. Singapore’s reliance on foreign manpower – a contentious issue even at the best of times – gained renewed salience during the pandemic because of employers shedding jobs. ST PHOTO: JASON QUAH

Every national Budget contains numbers, lots of them.

But each number has meaning.

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