Should welfare recipients be drug tested? Welfare is supposed to meet the basic needs and drugs are far from the basic human needs. If drug using recipients get all the benefits they are more likely to take their check and spend it on their next fix‚ rather than buy groceries. Drug testing welfare recipients would decrease the amount of people abusing the system‚ it would require recipients to stay free of using drugs‚ and would reveal recipients who are wasting the tax payers money. It is clear
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Drug Test All Welfare Recipients A Woman working at a convenience store in the US had a man walk in with an EBT card (Food Stamp Credit Card or something similar) and he wanted to buy cigarettes. The woman refused and the man left. The next day the man came in again with a member of his family and raised a commotion about it. The owner came in‚ sold the man cigarettes and fired the woman. Some people might say that it is unconstitutional to demand a mandatory drug test in order to receive welfare
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except for one‚ and that is on the subject of welfare‚ should you be drug tested or what are you spending your check from the government on. I could rant and rave for hours on all the subtopics of welfare‚ but the most important subtopic that I would like to focus on is "Should the Welfare Be Drug Tested". In my opinion I say "yes"‚ here’s why. The term welfare is actually not just one program is a lot of programs under one word‚ which is welfare. Some of the programs are: Medicaid‚ The Women
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Should Welfare Recipients Be Drug Tested BCOM/275 Should Welfare Recipients Be Drug Tested Pre-employment drug testing and post hiring random testing has become common place in today’s business world. In order to ensure that their employees can function safely for the good of themselves‚ fellow employees and the company property‚ companies have adopted the practice of drug testing employees. In order meet eligibility requirements‚ potential employees must submit to the testing and declare
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different things that can be said about the subject of drug testing welfare recipients. It can be said that it is unfair‚ and that may be true. It can also be said that it is justifiable‚ and this may also be true. In this paper I plan to prove that drug testing welfare recipients is unconstitutional‚ as well as costly to the state administering such test. Testing the recipients can be considered stereotypical and very demeaning. While making sure welfare funds are used properly‚ it is too costly and does
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Mikayla White Mr. Nask Freshman English II 17‚ Feb. 2015 Should welfare recipients be drug tested in order to receive assistance? No‚ I do not think that welfare recipients should have to be drug tested in order to receive assistance. People that are for drug testing welfare recipients feel like it is not fair that they have to be drug tested in order to maintain a job but people receiving “free money” don’t have to be tested. I feel like they need to think beyond the fairness and think about more
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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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Should Drug Testing Be Mandatory For Welfare Recipients? Florida Governor Rick Scott made plans to test all welfare recipients to see if they are using drugs before they can receive payments is hardly saving the state any money‚ according to recent reports. At $30 per test‚ the state paid $28‚800 in drug test reimbursements (960 reimbursements at $30 each‚ since about 2 percent also didn’t finish the application process) for those who did pass‚ while saving themselves about $66‚000 in payments
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Drug Testing Welfare Recipients: Proposal to Drug Test Welfare Recipients There are approximately 30 million Americans on some sort of welfare right now. In 2010‚ the United States Federal Government spent $0.8 trillion toward welfare. The amount spent on welfare in 2010 is one of the top expenses‚ money spent on defense and healthcare were the highest expenses‚ but welfare was third (Chantrill‚ Christopher). The main purpose of an economic welfare system is to assist citizens who are not
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Resolved: Should welfare recipients receive drug testing? Since welfare programs started in the 60s‚ a reoccurring pattern has been seen in more cases than one. Fraudulent activity and taking advantage of the system has been happening for way too long in our society. A simple drug test should be administered to welfare recipients if they expect to receive the benefits that are offered to them. If other citizens such as the ones in the working class are held accountable to be administered a drug screening
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