{"id":71637,"date":"2023-10-18T22:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=71637"},"modified":"2023-10-18T22:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:19:03","slug":"commentary-singapore-has-long-resisted-unemployment-benefits-so-why-the-change-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=71637","title":{"rendered":"Commentary: Singapore has long resisted unemployment benefits, so why the change of heart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t mistake plans to provide financial support to retrenched workers for a change in philosophy about welfare. It will still be very much in line with Singapore\u2019s ethos of self-reliance, says NUS labour economist Kelvin Seah.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/commentary\/singapore-unemployment-support-financial-aid-retrenched-self-reliance-3854851\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t mistake plans to provide financial support to retrenched workers for a change in philosophy about welfare. It will still be very much in line with Singapore\u2019s ethos of self-reliance, says NUS labour economist Kelvin Seah.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":71638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-71637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sgnews","tag-cna"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}