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Should applicants for jobless benefits have to pass a drug test?
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Kanga_Roo
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Registered: 2002-2-26 12:58:17
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Should applicants for jobless benefits have to pass a drug test?
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Not until applied to corporate welfare recipients.
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Sith_Mauler
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Registered: 2002-12-21 13:40:03
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Should applicants for jobless benefits have to pass a drug test?
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Jezza_Belle posted:
Gaevren posted:
No. It's already been shown to be waaaaaaay too cost ineffective for welfare programs. Plus if they're collecting unemployment, it means they were actually employed, as in they earned the right to those benefits. There are enough hoops to jump through already.
Florida only 4% failed and that is being generous.
so yeah they wasted millions to save a few thousand bucks 
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Ah-Schoo
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They just need to get the testing cheaper.
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Should applicants for jobless benefits have to pass a drug test?
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Ah-Schoo posted:
They just need to get the testing cheaper.
Yes, why hasn't the free market solved this problem yet for the government?
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Sith_Mauler
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Registered: 2002-12-21 13:40:03
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Ah-Schoo posted:
They just need to get the testing cheaper.
some states thought they could use those $20 testing kits that you can get any drug store.
until they found out the test has to be able to withstand a court challenge.
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Axispipe
Title: Destroyer of Worlds
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Registered: 2002-2-9 11:05:08
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Kordirn posted:
Only if those who are passing the legislature have to pass the same test. 
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Sith_Mauler
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Axispipe posted:
Kordirn posted:
Only if those who are passing the legislature have to pass the same test.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/12/us-oklahoma-drugtest-idUSBRE82B1C020120312
Oklahoma legislators voted to subject themselves and politicians throughout the state to the same drug test they will require of poor people receiving public assistance.
The bill passed the Oklahoma House 82-6 on Monday and will now go to the state Senate.
The bill requires applicants to the state's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program to pass a drug screen to receive benefits. An amendment to the bill brought Oklahoma politicians into the same drug-testing regimen.
Similar bills requiring drug testing for welfare recipients have passed the Utah Legislature and the state Senate in Georgia this year, but legislation in Florida and Michigan has been stymied so far in the courts on constitutional grounds, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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