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Welfare recipients are heavy drug users
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Or... Another worthless conservative program.
According to the Tennessean, since the screening process was first established in 2014, a mere 65 out of 39,121 applicants for cash assistance through the Families First in Tennessee program have tested positive for illegal drugs. That means that just 0.17% of applicants have been found to be using illicit drugs.
That number is even lower than what the data revealed after the first year of the screening program. At that point, 0.19% of applicants failed a drug test.
The power of these two numbers lies not in their difference, but their similarity — it's clear that the screening process is consistently finding barely any evidence of drug use among welfare applicants. In fact, the number is strangely low; the general population's illegal drug use rate stands at around 9%.
http://m.mic.com/articles/134650/tennessee-s-drug-testing-program-for-welfare-recipients-is-still-as-ineffective-as-ever#.Fs7nmGxkq
According to the Tennessean, since the screening process was first established in 2014, a mere 65 out of 39,121 applicants for cash assistance through the Families First in Tennessee program have tested positive for illegal drugs. That means that just 0.17% of applicants have been found to be using illicit drugs.
That number is even lower than what the data revealed after the first year of the screening program. At that point, 0.19% of applicants failed a drug test.
The power of these two numbers lies not in their difference, but their similarity — it's clear that the screening process is consistently finding barely any evidence of drug use among welfare applicants. In fact, the number is strangely low; the general population's illegal drug use rate stands at around 9%.
http://m.mic.com/articles/134650/tennessee-s-drug-testing-program-for-welfare-recipients-is-still-as-ineffective-as-ever#.Fs7nmGxkq
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What about for all the others on the program with random screens? Wouldn't that be a more accurate measure?
Either way, they just have to go 2 days for the coke to leave their system.
But why bring reality into this...
You want to get a job you have to drug test at a lot of companies. I was against this when it started happening but the courts ruled you don't have a right to a job so the employer doesn't need cause to search your bodily fluids