Welfare recipients are heavy drug users
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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Who cares? This bullshit has been debunked since Rick Scott was hammered for it back in 2011. That one of the hick states is still experimenting with it is hardly interesting news to anyone outside of that shithole.
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Yeah that's how you argue with republicans, with facts and stats and studies.
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Should abolish all public welfare regardless. No one is entitled to someone else's money just for being born, unless they choose to donate it out of free will and aren't forced to by threat of fines or imprisonment.
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Your opinion is wrong.PurpleJ said:Should abolish all public welfare regardless. No one is entitled to someone else's money just for being born, unless they choose to donate it out of free will and aren't forced to by threat of fines or imprisonment.
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I'm against all drug testing.
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Disagree.GreenRiverGatorz said:
Your opinion is wrong.PurpleJ said:Should abolish all public welfare regardless. No one is entitled to someone else's money just for being born, unless they choose to donate it out of free will and aren't forced to by threat of fines or imprisonment.
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Someone should abolish you.PurpleJ said:Should abolish all public welfare regardless. No one is entitled to someone else's money just for being born, unless they choose to donate it out of free will and aren't forced to by threat of fines or imprisonment.
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It tested new applicants, who knew they had to be clean before joining the program, right?
What about for all the others on the program with random screens? Wouldn't that be a more accurate measure? -
I think you have to renew your application at a certain point and it includes a drug test. Could be wrong tho.whatshouldicareabout said:It tested new applicants, who knew they had to be clean before joining the program, right?
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. -
I'm against drugs and testing.
