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	<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Unemployment still high despite fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 10:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Unemployment in the UK remains at over eight per cent of the working population, despite a second successive monthly fall.
The three months to the end of March saw a fall of 45,000 in the number out of work, to 2.63 million, or 8.2 per cent of the population, while the proportion of the population aged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inflation &#8217;set to rise&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.abacusfinance.co.uk/debtadvice/inflation-set-to-rise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The pressure on consumers struggling to pay off their debt is set to rise because of increasing inflation.
This is the prediction of Legal and General, which said it expects the Bank of England to forecast the cost of living to increase again when it releases its Quarterly Inflation Report next week.
According to the insurance firm, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credit card debt &#8216;rises when people run short of money&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.abacusfinance.co.uk/debtadvice/credit-card-debt-rises-when-people-run-short-of-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 11:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Britons who run short of cash before payday are likely to pile up credit card debt as a means of making ends meet, a new survey has shown.
Plastic, overdrafts and dipping into savings are the top three methods used of accessing extra cash when money runs short, a MoneySupermarket study has revealed.
A quarter turned to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economy &#8216;only just returning to growth&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.abacusfinance.co.uk/debtadvice/economy-only-just-returning-to-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The UK economy is growing again - but only just.
In the three months to April, gross domestic product increased by 0.1 per cent, according to a study by the National Institute of economic and Social Research (NIESR).
The figures are unofficial, but the organisation said they represented an end to a brief recession, following the official [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Families to face more debt after Queen&#8217;s Speech?</title>
		<link>http://www.abacusfinance.co.uk/debtadvice/families-to-face-more-debt-after-queens-speech/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 11:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Families are set to get poorer due to ongoing austerity measures and nothing announced in the Queen&#39;s Speech will change this, the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) has said.
CPAG chief executive Alison Garnham said the statement that the government is focusing more on families is &#34;positive&#34;.
However, she added: &#34;There&#39;s little here that will make life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prices &#8216;face north-south divide&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.abacusfinance.co.uk/debtadvice/prices-face-north-south-divide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.abacusfinance.co.uk/debtadvice/prices-face-north-south-divide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:53:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Consumers in the south may tend to earn more on average than in the north - but they could also struggle more with debt due to higher prices.
 A Daily Mail study has found all sorts of goods and services cost more in southern areas than in northern ones.
 Comparing the prices in Hammersmith, west [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food quality &#8216;falling&#8217; as debt bites</title>
		<link>http://www.abacusfinance.co.uk/debtadvice/food-quality-falling-as-debt-bites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 11:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Debt and the general strain of falling incomes on consumers&#160; is manifesting itself in bad food choices as people opt for cheap products instead of healthy ones.
 This is the conclusion of a study by Prudential, which has found 22 per cent of shoppers are eating less healthily because of the rising cost of living.
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britons &#8216;poorer than before&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.abacusfinance.co.uk/debtadvice/britons-poorer-than-before/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 11:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Britons are &#34;significantly worse off than we were four years ago&#34;, Bank of England governor Mervyn King has said.
Speaking in the 2012 BBC Today Programme Lecture, Mr King admitted that the central bank failed to spot how British financial services providers were lending money too freely and easily in the 2000s and operating in an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consumers &#8216;taking on more debt&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.abacusfinance.co.uk/debtadvice/consumers-taking-on-more-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 10:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[UK consumers took on more new credit card debt in March than in recent months, new data has shown.
Bank of England Trends in Lending figures have revealed lending to individuals &#163;1.4 billion, of which the unsecured share was an extra &#163;0.4 billion.
This was upon the six-month average of &#163;0.3 billion and included &#163;0.2 billion rises [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket money to help kids avoid debt?</title>
		<link>http://www.abacusfinance.co.uk/debtadvice/pocket-money-to-help-kids-avoid-debt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 10:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Kelly</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Pocket money could be useful in helping children learn how to use money wisely.
Parenting writer and author of Raising Children: The Primary Years Liat Hughes Joshi suggested giving youngsters cash in such a way is a &#34;fantastic&#34; method of teaching them how to handle finances.
Even small sums like 50p to &#163;1 a week will help [...]]]></description>
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