Neyber's Kalia: It's time to give credit to working people

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Employees should have the right to cut credit costs and reduce burdens of punitive interest rates, says Monica Kalia, chief strategy officer of Neyber.

There are more people in work than ever before, we're growing faster than other G20 economies and rated as the fifth largest economy in the world - great achievements that we should all be proud of. However all is not so positive for employees, whether they are in the private or public sectors. The fact is that eight years after the financial crisis, pay levels are still flatlining and people are feeling the pinch that began with a credit crunch and turned into a full-blown recession. For working people, this has led a free market favouring Conservative government to introduce a new N...

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