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Veteran, ACLU Challenge Florida Welfare Drug Test Law [FEATURE]
The new Florida law require welfare applicants to pass a drug test has now been challenged in federal court.
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Video: Florida Welfare Drug Testing Debate
Far from saving the state money, Florida's new welfare drug testing law, promoted aggressively by Gov.
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Few Florida Welfare Applicants Fail Drug Tests So Far
Florida Gov. Rick Scott claimed he could save the state money by making welfare applicants and recipients pass drug tests. He assumed they were a bunch of addicts, but early results are proving him wrong.
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National Poll Finds Support for Welfare Drug Testing
Americans feel pretty strongly that welfare applicants and recipients should be subject to drug testing, according to a new poll, but the findings could be skewed.
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Welfare Drug Testing Bill Introduced in Nebraska
One Nebraska state senator has identified a grave threat to the Cornhusker State: Welfare recipients on drugs.
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Mississippi Tea Partiers Push Welfare Drug Testing Initiative
The Mississippi Tea Party and some of its affiliates claim to want to impose a welfare drug testing program of a type already found unconstitutional by the federal judiciary.
Gov. Rick Scott (R) scores political points on the backs of the poor. (Image courtesy state of Florida)
Florida Welfare Drug Testing Bill Signed Into Law
Under a Florida law signed by Gov. Rick Scott Tuesday, welfare recipients must undergo drug tests. It looks like the ACLU will challenge it in court.
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Florida Legislature Passes Welfare Drug Test Bill
Florida is about to become the first state to impose suspicionless drug testing on welfare recipients. And then it will likely spend a lot of taxpayer money on a probably futile attempt to defend its constitutionality.
If you're on welfare in Missouri and the state suspects you use drugs, you will have to provide this. (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Missouri Welfare Drug Test Bill Heads for Governor's Desk
A welfare drug testing bill has passed out of the Missouri legislature and is headed for the governor's desk. This one requires "reasonable suspicion."
Welfare recipients are the latest targets of Florida politicos. (Image via Wikimedia.org)
Florida Welfare Drug Testing Bills Advance
Florida legislators want to make poor people take a drug test -- and pay for it -- before they can get public benefits.