or so say the liberal elitists at Reason
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or so say the liberal elitists at Reason
Texas follows suit, long after it proved to be a waste of money in FL and UT:
http://abc13.com/archive/9060392/
passed by TX Senate, moves to House for consideration...
Ugh. Saw that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Winehole23
For a bunch of conservatives, they seem dead set to try and waste money.
Repugs have no budget limits, no tax expenditure too big, when pushing their social agenda/VRWC/1%, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandomGuy
What 7 States Discovered After Spending More Than $1 Million Drug Testing Welfare Recipients
As state legislatures convene across the country, proposals keep cropping up to drug test applicants to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, or welfare.
Bills have been introduced so far in Montana, Texas, and West Virginia, with a handful of others also considering such a move.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) has gone further, proposing to drug test applicants for food stamps and unemployment benefits. They follow recent bills put into action in Maine,Michigan, and Mississippi.
Proponents of these bills claim they will save money by getting drug users off the dole and thus reduce spending on benefits. But states that are looking at bills of their own may want to consider the fact that the drug testing programs that are already up and running haven’t seen such results.
According to state data gathered by ThinkProgress, the seven states with existing programs — Arizona, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah — are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to ferret out very few drug users. The statistics show that applicants actually test positive at a lower rate than the drug use of the general population.
The national drug use rate is 9.4 percent. In these states, however, the rate of positive drug tests to total welfare applicants ranges from 0.002 percent to 8.3 percent, but all except one have a rate below 1 percent. Meanwhile, they’ve collectively spent nearly $1 million on the effort, and millions more may have to be spent in coming years.
The other impact is increasing stigma around both welfare and drug use. It can increase the shame people feel around applying for welfare benefits in the first place, which could drive them away from getting assistance they may need to get by. At the same time, it may make drug users less willing to disclose and therefore keep them from connecting with treatment, according to Lower-Basch. “If people are afraid they’ll lose their benefits if they admit to using drugs, it makes it hard for them to say, ‘Hey, actually I have this issue,'” she explained.
A study of Florida’s program, which has since been struck down by the courts, found that it didn’t produce any reliable estimates of drug use among welfare recipients.
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http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/02/26/3624447/tanf-drug-testing-states/
you rigthwingnuts and your Repug politicians are totally nasty, mean, vindictive assholes, protecting/enrichingh the 1%, screwing the 99%, esp Bishop Gecko's "47%".