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Is America "The World's First Poor Rich Country"?

Small Business Labs

.  He argues that despite relatively high incomes, growing numbers of Americans can't afford a middle class lifestyle. Second, Americans bear the risks of paying those unaffordable costs to an extreme degree, bearing the risks that institutions should, and so those risks are now ruinously high. . The  The 9.9%

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All work and some play: the rise of the ‘Bleisure’ travellers

Practically Perfect PA

While people were probably ‘bleisuring’ long before the advent of the awkward word amalgam, it has recently gained attention as a trend due to quantitative analysis carried out by several corporate travel companies (namely BridgeStreet® Global Hospitality and Carlson Wagonlit Travel’s 2016 white paper on the topic).

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29 Beautiful Stories That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity

Success

But he found the maze of his care complicated, expensive and not focused enough on his goal: walking again. Low on traditional options, Leeuw discovered Neuroworx , a low-cost therapy center in Utah founded by a former quadriplegic, that allowed him to recuperate at his own pace for a tiny fraction of what traditional care would have cost.

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