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This category contains 7 sites:

• A Thin Ray of Light - The material mostly relates to the New Deal for welfare recipients, introduced by the Blair government in April 1998. Also included is some material on the French unemployed movement of 1998, translated from the French.
• Dole Bondage? Up Yours - Charting the decline and fall of Wales Against the JSA, written by the disillusioned former secretary.
• Job Seekers Allowance - A Survival Guide - This guide is to help people deal with the changes at the dole office under the J.S.A. The J.S.A. isn't about helping anyone get a job. It's about hassling people off the dole into low paid work by making it tougher to sign on.
• Job Seekers Allowance - Only doing Your Job? - Challenges Employment Service workers to refuse to enforce the odious and immoral Jobseekers Allowance, and rebuts arguments that it's not their responsibility.
• New Deal = Dirty Deal - "...This ideology has now got so extreme that even if you are disabled or a single parent they want you to feel guilty about not working, and the laws are already being changed to make the New Deal apply to disabled people and single parents."
• New Deal = Rotten Deal = Dirty Deal - Twelve reasons why the so-called "New Deal" is a rotten deal.
• New Deal Home Page - Official government site.