Government determined to increase population to 7 mil in 2030.

[yeokiwi]

The white paper lack references and substantiation on various claims and points made. For example, "Nurse is low skill worker", if this is an important paper on Singapore's future, how could they made such mistake (if you understand how the government's machinery work on creation/planning, rounds of checks before the paper could even landed on the minister or PM's desk) Small thing they can screwed out, what about big thing? What do you think?

“Certain low-skilled jobs like personal services, retail, and nursing are hard to offshore. They will still be needed even as the economy upgrades.”

Try to replace the words by "low-paid" and everything will seem to gel.

But. to say that these jobs were lowly paid reflects badly on them and so they used the more appropriate words - low-skilled.
However, they had forgotten that nursing actually is a highly demanding job and requires good technical knowledge.

In the current singapore context, personal service, retail and nursing are lowly paid jobs which is correct.

Given the gov direction and perception, please do not ask your kids to be nurses, retail staffs or anything related to personal services.
Their wages will be depressed.