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Stagnant salaries and food loans make for gloomy Labour Day

 

A jua kali artisan goes about his business at Kibuye market in Kisumu county. [Collins Oduor, Standard]

 

The rising cost of living is introducing something on many workers' payslips: consumption loans.
From buying foodstuffs to illuminating homes and educating children, the cost of living is rising sharply. But workers’ salaries and wages can only...