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| Churches urged to support people in financial difficulty |
| (26.1.2009) |
More than half of UK adults feel ill-equipped to handle their finances, new research commissioned by Christians Against Poverty has revealed. The YouGov poll of more than 2,000 adults also revealed that younger generations are the least prepared to cope with the effect of the credit crunch.
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