' Most working people don't know what a UB40 is - it's not an insurance policy, it's not a Jet fighter - It's your dole card.'
Andrew, David, Jackie, Jim, Nicky, Sean and Shola, aged between 16 and 20, left school for the dole queue - a prospect facing one in every two school leavers. Together with UB40, the band that learned to play music in the dole queue, they talk about how they are making their own futures. Poetry from Lipstick and Lager written by young people out of work.
Compiled by MIKE SHEILS Producer CHRIS LONGLEY
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