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Money: Episode 3: Forty Grand

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Episode 3: Forty Grand

BBC Two - Money, Forty Grand

A look at how various households spend identical budgets.

Documentary series. The average British income for a household with two working adults is forty grand. This film compares and contrasts a set of such households.

The last episode in Vanessa Engle's series about our personal attitudes to money.

Forty grand is, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies, the average British income for a household where two adults are working. This film features a set of households who all live on this same net amount of money annually. Some consider forty grand to be a large amount of money, whilst others struggle to get by. The film compares the way the various households spend their identical budgets, revealing a wide range of priorities and values, as well as big differences in their life situations.

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