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Poor people are penalised for borrowing to make ends meet – a new alliance gives them another way

Professor Karen Rowlingson writes for The Conversation: The End High Cost Credit Alliance has been formed in response to the fact that those on the lowest incomes pay the most to borrow money even where they are borrowing for essentials.

21 March 2018
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