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4 Smart Money Rules for Couples Living on One Income

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The median household income for families with two full-time working parents is just over $100,000, compared with just $55,000 for households where only one parent works full time, according to a 2015 Pew Research Center survey. Make a plan for personal expenses. Living off of one income can be as emotional as it is logistical. “My

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Bleisure Travel Continues to Increase

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We first reported on bleisure travel , which is the the blending of business and leisure travel, back in 2015.    A According to the folks at the expense reporting and management firm, SAP Concur, it continues to gain popularity.  bleisure” trips increased by 20% from 2016 to 2017.

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More Americans Facing a Rent Burden

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households rented their homes in 2016, which is about 9.3 Being rent burdened means having less money for other expenses or savings. Between 2001 and 2015 median U.S. In 2015 7 million of renter households were severely burdened, which is defined as spending more than half of their income on rent. Nearly 43 million U.S.

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The On-Demand Workforce Continues to Expand

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  This is part of the findings of the recently released Intuit 2016 Dispatch From the New Economy: The On-Workforce study.  Forty-one percent say that a financial hardship – such as a job loss, medical problem, or unexpected major expense – impacted them during the prior year. The number is forecast to grow to 9.2

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This Digital Nomad Couple Sold Everything to Travel the World in a Sailboat—Here’s What They’ve Learned About Life, Goal Setting and Relationships

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They met on Tinder in 2015 while living in Sweden as expats: Ellison, an aviation sales director from Des Moines, Iowa, and Darsy, a human resources systems specialist from Paris. After several months of research, they attended a two-week sailing course in Gibraltar before selling Darsy’s apartment and buying Polar Seal in March 2016. “On

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How to Partner with a Rival for a Win-Win

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Blue Moon Fair Trade partners with three other fair-trade retailers to combine trans-Pacific shipments, saving all of them up to 40% in shipping and paperwork expenses. This article was published in April 2015 and has been updated. Team up to attract the big guys. You can also attract big clients by collaborating with competitors.

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Queer Eye’s Bobby Berk on Designing a Space—and Life—That Makes You Happy

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A guiding principle behind the book was that he didn’t simply want to create an expensive design book that would limit who could learn about design. “I In 2015, BUILDER Magazine identified Berk as the most millennial designer in the world, even though he was not yet a designer. I want to democratize design,” Berk says. “I

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