Sentence examples for dole from inspiring English sources

"I would ask them: is it compassionate to leave people on the dole for years with no incentive to get into work?" he said.

Changes to unemployment benefits AKA "earn or learn" – blocked and sidelined Unemployed people under 30 would only be able to claim Newstart or Youth Allowance for six months of the year, and would have to take part in 25 hours a week of work-for-the dole programs if not studying or training.

Even before yesterday's "hair shirt" budget – which slashed public sector workers' pay, cut back child benefit and reduced dole payments to the Irish unemployed – Fianna Fáil were deeply unpopular.

The speech was undercut with measures of pure toughness, such as plans to ban school-leavers from claiming the dole.

But for unemployed people under 30, this "age of opportunity" means waiting six months to get the dole, then receiving a payment only for six months and only if they work for it, and then losing the payment again for the next six months, during which a potential employers may get a wage subsidy.

By the time the pit finally closed down in 1993, putting the final 1900 workers on the dole, nearly 40% of the population of the village was on invalidity benefit – the highest of any community in the country.

If not studying or training, people under 30 will have to do 25 hours a week in work-for-the-dole programs to receive Newstart or Youth Allowance for six months.

Some people on the disability support pension who are under 35 will have their cases reassessed and may have to take part in compulsory activities, such as work-for-the-dole programs, to earn income support.

The ins-and-outs of the dole-queue data suggest the trouble is that hiring has slowed, not that lay-offs have sped up.

The 1980 Bayh-Dole act made it easier for universities to commercialise their research; in 2003, American universities earned $1.3 billion from patents (see chart).

Odd, then, that the Bayh-Dole act should now be under such attack in America.No free lunchThere has always been a fringe that felt it was immoral for the government to privatise the crown jewels of academic research.