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Great post in Real Age I wanted to share with our readers. My family has a history of diabetes, so I found it extremely relevant. Actually, my mother sent me the article. I guess she’s worried I’m not eating enough spinach.

Anyway, why would a blog that focuses primarily on financial info include this post that gives advice on how to reduce the risk of diabetes?

Well, I think it’s pretty obvious that it’s hard to enjoy financial health if you don’t have physical health. Plus, the

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One of the main problems facing those that have multiple streams of income is managing them. You can start to feel a bit like a juggler and chances are, you may be neglecting areas that could be performing better and making more money. Focusing can be tough, but there are easy ways that you can keep track of your many income streams and make sure that they are all performing up to snuff.

1. Set aside a few hours every week to collect reports.

One of the main keys to staying on top of several income streams is to keep tabs on them every week. Set aside a few hours to focus on the returns and keep track of how each one is performing.

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The UK is a very unequal country, and this extreme inequality is the result of major changes in the income distribution over the last thirty-five years, in particular large increases in inequality under the Thatcher government in the 1980s At the same time, according to recent data from the British Social Attitudes survey, three-quarters of people in the UK believe that the gap between rich and poor in the UK is too high.

But would a more equal distribution of income reduce the level of efficiency in the economy and hence make us worse off overall?

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How does anyone manage to live on social security benefits? On Tuesday, I noted that the average weekly payment to someone receiving Incapacity Benefit or Severe Disablement Allowance was £96.64 that is being replaced by Employment and Support Allowance, where the average weekly payment is £81.71.

Yesterday, the Department for Work and Pensions published their annual Abstract of Statistics for Benefits, National Insurance Contributions, and Indices of Prices and Earnings. The most useful information in this book is in the pages detailing benefit uprating since the war each increase, together with what percentage of average earnings that represented. T Read more…