{"id":30131,"date":"2021-11-30T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T02:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/?p=30131"},"modified":"2021-11-30T02:21:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T18:21:37","slug":"lower-income-families-with-young-kids-in-spore-worst-hit-by-pandemic-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2021\/11\/30\/lower-income-families-with-young-kids-in-spore-worst-hit-by-pandemic-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower-income families with young kids in S’pore worst hit by pandemic: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo: \u2018Children\u2019 by Filbert Kuong from SRN\u2019s SG Photobank<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In \u2018Lower-income families with young kids worst hit by pandemic: Study\u2019 (The Straits Times<\/em>, 2021), Professor Jean Wei-Jun Yeung (NUS CFPR and Department of Sociology) shares how the Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study (SG Leads), a large-scale study that \u00a0involves 4,355 children, found that home-based learning during the Covid-19 pandemic put kids from needy households at a greater disadvantage. While 98 per cent of children in private property have a computer or tablet, only 88 per cent of children living in HDB rental flats have the same.<\/p>\n

Of families who had someone who lost a job during the pandemic, 20 per cent comprised of households who lived in HDB rental flats. In comparison, those living in private property they own or rent made up only 5 per cent of the category.<\/p>\n

Prof Yeung explained that more families in HDB rental flats experienced job loss, as most work in lower-wage jobs in industries that were badly hit by Covid-19, such as the service industry and cleaning. She also noted that parents who were financially better-off were better equipped to aid their children with home-based learning or even hire extra tutors to help their children cope with the changes.<\/p>\n

To avoid disadvantages arising from the pandemic being passed down to the next generation of lower-income families, sustained assistance is needed. To help families cope with the financial impact of the pandemic, the Singapore Government introduced a host of broad-based support schemes and targeted financial aid, such as the Covid-19 Recovery Grant and Temporary Relief Fund.<\/p>\n

Read the article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In \u2018Lower-income families with young kids worst hit by pandemic: Study\u2019 (The Straits Times, 2021), Professor Jean Wei-Jun Yeung (NUS CFPR and Department of Sociology) shares how the Singapore Longitudinal Early Development Study (SG Leads), a large-scale study that \u00a0involves 4,355 children, found that home-based learning during the Covid-19 pandemic put kids from needy households […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":30132,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30133,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30131\/revisions\/30133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}