In the News
The Price of Benefits
Sarah Best
21st February 2017
What should people on welfare spend their money on? This is a question raised from an interview with a woman who spent her Christmas bonus from her benefits (of £10) on two bottles of Prosecco.
READ: What’s wrong with spending your benefits on prosecco? Nothing
A good article and video that could form an interesting and possibly heightened debate in your Sociology class!
Links could be made to the New Right perspective, Marxism and the ‘Work, Poverty and Welfare’ topic (Year 1) specifically.
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