This is Money Podcast
The State we’re in: could higher pay for nurses and scrapping university fees boost the economy?
07 Jul 2017
Nurses have had their pay cut every year for the last five years. Students are coming out of our universities with the highest level of debt in the West – higher on average than the USA. Rents are totally out of control. What then are the prospects for our youngsters and for our public sector workers? Is austerity really going to end? It’s complicated and there’s only one person who can explain this in simple, understandable English - Simon Lambert, who, with Georgie Frost and Lee Boyce, get to the bottom of the great public sector pay debate. Perhaps using more taxpayers money to give nurses and firefighters a pay rise will boost the economy? They also turn their attention to… The ‘absolutely hideous’ university fees students face in Britain. Nine grand a year for 4 hours a week and a lifetime of debt. A possible imminent interest rates rise and how one prepares for a battering on your costs of living. And with the dream of home ownership for graduates now pretty much over, rents are in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. What to do? Enjoy.
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