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At the workshop titled Middle Class in Singapore: Security or Anxiety? held at the NUS Kent Ridge Campus, SMU Associate Professor of Economics Ho Kong Weng noted that the middle-income group is experiencing a phenomenon known as the “middle-class squeeze”, where it has to bear a disproportionate burden of financing the lower-income segment of society.