'We don’t want business as usual': The plans for post-pandemic recovery in Wigan

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here"Because business as usual in Wigan meant a low-wage economy with a third of jobs in the borough paying below the real living wage."It meant Wigan has low skills and also this borough has some of the worst social mobility in the country."So you start to think, do we want to go back to what was our normal?

Do we want to go back to business as usual? No we don’t."Coun Cunliffe warned of local businesses going under and many people losing their jobs due to the economic recession caused by the coronavirus crisis.He said that local authorities have to start thinking about how to promote the local economy and keep the money that is in Wigan, within the local economy.Wigan Council spends around £350m on goods and services, about 30 pc of which.