Wealth gap widens as poor borrow more to get through lockdown

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22.06.2020 - 16:25

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coronavirus pandemic. Research has shown that lower-income households have exhausted meagre saving and turned to high-interest credit to ride out the lockdown.

The Rainy Days study for the Resolution Foundation think tank found that the coronavirus crisis exposed Britain’s wealth gap and the ability of low-income households to weather the economic storm.

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