Word: dole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dole on the great out-of-doors...
Sums expended on the dole in 1925 totaled...
Foreigners, keenly interested in this gigantic turnover in social insurance asked widely: "Who pays for the dole...
Answer: At present employed British workers pay one-third of the dole in compulsory insurance payments deducted from their pay envelopes by their employers. The employers are similarly compelled to supply a third out of their profits. The Government makes up the last third out of taxes. Thus the dole is no "charity," but a true "compulsory insurance...
Many a British editor hailed the dole last week as the one factor which has kept Briton from social revolution during the present trying strike period...