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The sector responds to the Spring Budget

Workplace Insight

Yesterday’s Spring Budget included a number of announcements that affect the various people, place and technology professions in the UK. The Autumn Budget in November 2023 teased us with the “Back to Work” plan to support sick or disabled adults back into work along with a launch of the occupational health consultation.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

Success

Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget. We’re done. That’s it.”.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

Success

Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget. We’re done. That’s it.”.

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Poverty in America

Small Business Labs

Census Bureau released the Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2017. of Americans lived in poverty in 2017, which is statistically the same as in 2016. The reason is the "official" poverty measure was designed in 1963 and defined as three times the "subsistence food budget" for a family of any given size.

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Time Is Your Most Valuable Resource—Don’t Waste It

Success

Learning how to budget your attention is an essential skill in the Attention Economy. My favorite way to make my attention valuable is to protect the first hour of my day at all costs. This article originally appeared in the May 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine. What’s the Attention Economy? It’s the world we live in.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

Success

And as that fame grew, so did his fortune—which he immediately started giving away, first in a hefty donation to Chicago Public Schools in 2017, then to the county’s mental health services. His estimated earnings in 2017 were $33 million.) But when there’s no label, the production costs come out of Chance’s pocket. “I

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7 Apps to Teach Kids About Money

Success

Budgeting and building credit are only the beginning—you also have student loans, mortgage rates and maybe even cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A 2017 study found that disparities in financial literacy may account for as much as 40 percent of the wealth gap between those retiring with more and those retiring with less.

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