While the decline means thing are moving in the right direction, Freddie still expects to be on the public dole for the foreseeable future.

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Will the young go back to the dole or be taken on permanently by the state?

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The unbanked tend to be out of work, poor and on the dole.

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Unless they learn they will be hard to employ and may end up on the dole.

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Because the less academically inclined can too easily fall into low paid, unskilled jobs- or languish on the dole queue - vocational training would be revamped.

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Bob Dole of Kansas in 1996, may be on the receiving end of an unwelcome message from the state's voters.

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This could be seen as a story of resilience - British workers resolutely refusing to be pushed onto the dole decide to try and make a living on their own.

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Dole, the 1996 GOP presidential candidate, will be 78 on July 22.

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