{"id":1,"date":"2024-07-15T02:40:25","date_gmt":"2024-07-15T02:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2024-07-15T03:12:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-15T03:12:57","slug":"jamus-lim-not-telling-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/15\/jamus-lim-not-telling-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"What Jamus Lim Isn\u2019t Telling You About The Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A great piece by Donovan Choy, a local economist that hasn&#8217;t been writing in a while, which is a shame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article takes a critical look at Jamus Lim&#8217;s push for a minimum wage in Singapore, and questions whether Jamus, who is known for his economic background, is prioritizing popularity over economic rationale, similar to figures like Paul Krugman who famously flip-flopped on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Choy suggests that once economists like Lim step into politics, they bow to political pressure and soundbite politics, which compromises their initial academic integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a reminder that what sounds good politically isn&#8217;t always sound economically!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donovanchoy.medium.com\/what-jamus-lim-isnt-telling-you-about-the-minimum-wage-123c52fe154c\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/donovanchoy.medium.com\/what-jamus-lim-isnt-telling-you-about-the-minimum-wage-123c52fe154c\">Read his piece here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Views: 9<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great piece by Donovan Choy, a local economist that hasn&#8217;t been writing in a while, which is a shame. The article takes a critical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/jamus3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theopinionsg.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}