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Opinion | Hong Kong s minimum wage increase should be stepping stone in fight against poverty

Opinion | Hong Kong s minimum wage increase should be stepping stone in fight against poverty
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HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 15 September 2022 - The number of people living in poverty in Hong Kong has risen significantly these past few years. There are 1.65 million people, or 24% of the total population, now living below the poverty line. This means that almost 1 in every 4 people in Hong Kong is living in.

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Wealth gap between Hong Kong s crazy rich, miserably poor widens since 1997

Looking around his cramped home, with his family’s possessions piled up to save space, Chan Chuen Bui, 71, recalled that life was not this hard in his younger days. The Hongkonger, who worked in interior furnishing, said he used to earn between HK$20,000 (S$3,500) and HK$30,000 a month in 1997, and lived in a 300 sq ft low-cost public housing.

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Hong Kong s Poverty Rate at Record High

Poverty and unemployment in Hong Kong have reached a record high, and the national minimum wage has been .

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