While this means doing without some expensive toys and gadgets in the short run, your overall financial health will reward you in the not-so distant future.

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When people truly understand the reason why things cost what they do and how a seemingly minor thing, such as gas prices, can affect every facet of their lives, they can begin making decisions that will contribute to the overall financial health of the nation.

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This underscores the still-keen European investor uncertainty regarding the overall financial and economic health of the European Union.

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More and more companies are offering financial wellness programs as part of their overall employee wellness programs, and they may actually PAY you to participate or give you a discount on health insurance premiums-knowing that reducing your financial stress ultimately helps your overall health.

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The case, which is expected to focus on the last months of Jackson's life, his financial history and his overall health, could feature testimony from his children.

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They are tantamount to a discriminatory tax narrowly focused on certain industrial sectors--in the case of pharmaceuticals, a sector that at great financial risk develops and makes products critical to public health and to the overall reduction of health care costs.

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