Mandatory Drug Testing For Public Assistance Mandatory drug testing should be required for people wanting public assistance. It is used in order to stop habitual offenders that misuse the benefits that the government provides to us‚ the tax payers. It is our hard earned tax dollars that fund these benefits. This argument is to reason that we need to take control as employers to stop the misuse of benefits that pay for illegal drugs. As a tax payer‚ you are considered an employer
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Larry Tipton Ms. K Amaya English IV 20 April 2014 Child Labor should be outlawed Child Labor is continued because there’s a lack of education and poverty affects the lives of many people and because of that children have to help out with providing with their families. Children are being forced to work and they are not able to get an education throughout the process‚ children have no reason to work long hours for work but not for school. According to Merriam Webster poverty means “the state
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are receiving welfare. This percent equals out to be approximately 12.8 million Americans who receive welfare. The government spends roughly around $131.9 billion on welfare alone‚ which does not include food stamps or unemployment insurance. The number of Americans receiving food stamps is 46.7 million people while the number for Americans receiving unemployment insurance is 5.6 million. If the government is spending this much money on this many people‚ they all should at least be drug tested to ensure
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on whether drug testing of welfare recipients is legal in many of the local state governments. Welfare is suppose to meet the basic needs and drugs are far from the basic human needs. If recipients on using drugs get all the benefits they are more likely to take their check and spend it on drugs rather than their needs. Drug testing people randomly who receive assistance would decrease the amount of people abusing the system‚ it would require recipients to stay free of using drugs and would reveal
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Fran Butler Capella University Title of the Study College Persistence: Low Income Single Mother Welfare Recipients Research Paradigm The research paradigm that has been adopted for this study is Post-positivism and Critical-Advocacy. . Statement of the Problem This research will explore why a high percentage of graduates from the Life Design for Single Mums’ program are dropping out of higher education and regressing to previous program‚ give up or joining other community social
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Topic: Should Welfare Recipients Be Drug Tested? Thesis Statement: In the recent past there have been legislative proposals to drug test individuals who receive or apply for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits. Introduction: Do you believe that welfare recipients should be subject to a urinalysis before being able to receive food stamps‚ cash assistance or medical benefits through the government‚ or people who already receive these benefits should submit to random drug tests? We
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public assistance applicants should be required to take a mandatory drug test before they can qualify to receive any form of public assistance. Drug tests can detect a number of different illegal substances like‚ marijuana‚ steroids‚ amphetamines‚ cocaine‚ PCP‚ and opiates. “More than 22 million Americans age 12 and older - nearly 9% of the U.S. population - use illegal drugs‚ according to the government’s 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health”(CNN). One should never feel they are entitled to
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Drug use in school athletics has become a substantial problem in today’s society. With the rising pressure to succeed and the high level intensity in athletics‚ it does not come to a surprise that so many student–athletes are giving in to drugs. Many schools that are faced with drug use are turning to mandatory drug tests for student-athletes; however mandatory drug tests are a violation of the Fourth Amendment‚ the Fifth Amendment and drug testing reverses the legal principle of innocent until
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Drug testing in the workplace became legal when President Reagan signed "Executive Order 12564 -- Drug-free Federal workplace". In turn‚ that spawned the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988. Although both apply only to the workplaces of Federal employers and Federal contractors and grantees‚ private-sector employers immediately followed the government ’s lead because they legally could. However‚ there is much controversy over the legality of drug testing in the workplace‚ especially the legality of random
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Will Welfare Drug Tests Save Money? The Microeconomic Impact of Implementing Welfare Drug Testing in Marion County For as long as humans have lived on this earth‚ we have found a need to help other humans that are less fortunate than us. From the reign of Augustus in the Roman Empire‚ to today’s controversial welfare policies in the United States‚ history has recorded the charitable actions of society to provide for those that cannot provide for themselves. The United States has always
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