In a special report about food insecurity in Singapore, it cited a study conducted by the Lien Centre for Social Innovation at SMU, which surveyed 236 Singaporeans in four low-income neighbourhoods being served by food support groups. It found that nearly 1 in 5 participants in these areas reported severe food insecurity in 2018. SMU Associate Professor of Political Science John Donaldson shared that it was surprising as in Singapore, where the stereotype is that there is no hunger, they were expecting to find just a handful of people, but he stressed that the findings did not represent Singapore as a whole. He dismissed the stereotype that having many children is what keeps families in food insecurity, and said families who are working hard yet still struggle to put food on the table are “much more common” among the food-insecure, than those with a large brood.