dole queues
Waiting for benefits
Dole queues are lines of people waiting to collect unemployment benefits from the government.
The term is primarily British, where "the dole" means welfare payments to the jobless.
Dole queues appear in discussions of economic hardship: Factories closed and dole queues lengthened.
The image evokes recession, industrial decline, and mass unemployment.
- claimantsThose asserting ownership
- signing onFormally agreeing to join
- job centrePlacement service office
- unemployedWithout a job
- out of workWithout paid employment
job seekers · benefits · joblessness · breadline · welfare · soup kitchen · recession · redundancy · social stigma · entitlement · austerity · shared experiences · allowance · layoffs · poverty · hard times · council estate · economic downturn
dole queuesfull employment
All willing workers employed
job fairs · career opportunities · hiring halls · labor shortages · workforce
dole queueseconomic boom
Sustained period of growth
prosperity · economic miracle · affluence · full employment · bull market
dole queuesshopping sprees
Extended excessive purchasing outings
consumer spending · breadlines · soup kitchens · now hiring · grand openings
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