New PM, old message.
Birth rate is a tricky thing to change, because the government cannot have direct control over it. The best they can do is to make sure the conditions for babies are there, including housing, childcare, and parental leave, among other factors.
Josephine Teo's best efforts
Based on her famous comment about needing "a very small space to have sex"...
PM bo pian... have to direct appeal
That is why PM after PM, they have to resort to directly appealing to people to have babies. Desperate liao.
Disclaimer: the following memes are NOT REAL.
The employer-employee struggle
The problem with giving people what they want is that the business owners won't be happy. And there's no guarantee that birth rate will improve anyway.
Singapore might have experienced its last dragon-baby bumper crop in 2024. What are the chances that couples in 2036 still care about it? We really need to find new ways to get more babies...
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