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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Drug Testing Government Assistance Recipients All over the United States Americans are using government assistance money to buy drugs. It has become a major issue in the past years. Americans have figured out how to abuse the system. They are taking the governments money and are fueling their drug addictions. In order to fix this states across the United States have already started drug testing their applicant’s. Some states disagree because they believe it is stereotyping government assistance
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Drug Testing Welfare Recipients BSHS/332 Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Regular Drug testing is part of many people’s lives. When starting a new job many companies require a drug screening urinalysis. After gaining employment many companies require regular screening. Welfare Recipients have never been required to have drug tests to acquire benefits. Welfare was started in the 1930’s during the Great Depression to help families that were struggling. New Laws States have been proposing
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HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT UNIT VIII – CASE STUDY 16-1 The Case For And Against Drug Testing Columbia Southern University Professor: Ph.D. Chizoba Madueke (Dr. Zee) Student: Chi H. Nguyen Student # 217505 Drug Problems As per Nationwide Medical Review (n.d.)‚ drug users in United States are not specific case of unemployed people but‚ at the matter of facts‚ drug users can be anyone from a politician‚ a business owner‚ a doctor‚ a professor‚ and a student‚ to the kind-hearted neighbors. It
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pre-employment drug testing. One of the most obvious reasons is that of safety. The pre-employment drug test is a type of drug test which is widely spread among many companies. However in Barbados this procedure is not very common but there is a strong demand for it to be implemented in the work field. There are many different types of drug testing methods. The most common types of pre-employment drug testing that can be carried out in the workplace are urine‚ hair‚ saliva (oral fluids)
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been a frequent amount of controversial issues/argumentative topics that people consider ethical or unethical‚ and I think one of those topics is argumentative topics is animal testing. Animal testing has been around for countless years now since the discovering of physiology as a new area of science. Physiology is a branch of biology that studies the function of a living organism‚ so the only way scientists could research and study this area is by testing animals since they were attainable living organism
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Is Drug Testing in the Workplace Truly Effective in Keeping Employees Drug Free? In the field of Human Resources‚ employees are considered the most valuable resource. The job of a human resources representative is to find the best qualified person for the position. There are many forms of pre-employment testing that corporations use. Some use aptitude tests or other forms of intelligence testing‚ but more and more companies are now requiring a passing drug analysis as a condition for hire as
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Should people on public assistance be required to pass drug screenings? Almost all jobs and companies require a drug test before hiring you as an employee. So there is no reason a person requesting public assistance should not be required to pass a drug test as well. I don’t mean random drug testing either. Make it a requirement to receive their benefits. Our country cannot continue to waste money and expect taxpayers to support them. Enough is enough. If we sit back and allow the public health
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Drug Testing for Welfare Health care‚ food stamps‚ child care assistance‚ unemployment‚ cash aid‚ and housing assistance are all forms of welfare in the United States. “In fiscal year 1995‚ federal‚ state‚ and local governments spent about $1.5 trillion on social welfare programs‚ an increase of $69.4 billion (5 percent) from 1994” (Joseph 1). Substance abuse is a major financial burden which “In 1998… cost Americans an estimated $110 billion in expenses and lost revenue” (Lyman and Potter 8)
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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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