To tackle inequality, we must address both unequal opportunities and unequal outcomes: Tharman

To tackle inequality, we must address both unequal opportunities and unequal outcomes, SM Tharman said.

Unequal outcomes are not entirely due to ability and effort. They often have to do with ‘how people started out, and the social networks that give them different scaffoldings in life’.

This is why there is a raft of measures targeted at the low income and the vulnerable, like KidSTART which intervenes real early - even before a child is born - to ensure that the child from a low income family has a good start in life.

Like making quality preschool education accessible to the child from a low-income family where the fee is only $1 a month.