{"id":16311,"date":"2025-12-03T05:23:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16311"},"modified":"2025-12-03T05:23:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T21:23:38","slug":"glossy-numbers-uneven-realities-singapores-job-light-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16311","title":{"rendered":"Glossy numbers, uneven realities: Singapore\u2019s job-light recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">To an outsider, Singapore\u2019s recent macroeconomic numbers look like a glossy shop window \u2013 bright, polished, and full of high-value goods. But the reality depends on where you stand, whether you\u2019re in a swanky shop in Marina Bay Sands, or a humble HDB provision store. Foot traffic can tell a drastically different story, too.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"font-body-baseline-regular text-primary\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-annotation-test-id\">This divergence is often called a \u201cK-shaped recovery\u201d \u2013 where different segments rebound at radically different speeds. High earners ride buoyant stock markets and growth sectors, while low-wage workers and small businesses face volatility, slower income growth, and a widening digital divide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"tags-test-id\">\n<p><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Economic growth\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Economic growth<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for GDP\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">GDP<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Singapore economy\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Singapore economy<\/span><\/button><button data-testid=\"button-test-id\" class=\"layer-one border-default border interactive-button text-primary disabled:layer-disabled hover:disabled:layer-disabled default\" aria-label=\"button for Employment\"><span class=\"font-button-md-semibold\">Employment<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/opinion\/glossy-numbers-uneven-realities-singapores-job-light-recovery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To an outsider, Singapore\u2019s recent macroeconomic numbers look like a glossy shop window \u2013 bright, polished, and full of high-value goods. But the reality depends&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}