Word: doling
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Drop in at the Ministry, pop several questions and some bored but confident young Laborite will drawl, "America is on the Dole, not England...
...Every penny your Red Cross spends is Dole, that is 'charity.' Over here we've absolutely nothing of that kind. You ought to study our Unemployment Insurance Acts...
...this a Dole? Is it chanty? Is it reprehensible, degrading, shameful, or is it insurance...
Conclusions. The "transitional benefit" is sheer dole or state-charity. The borrowings of the Unemployment Fund smell of "dole" (repayment being most doubtful). But that part of the "covenanted benefit" (about two-thirds) which is paid out of "ordinary contributions" is still properly designated as insurance...
Flagrant Abuses. To some minds it may seem a flagrant abuse that "dependent unmarried mothers" should batten on the Dole when their men are out of work, but such is the law, this battening is no abuse...